Birds Migrating to Australia
Flying Thousands of Kilometres to Come to Australia for the Summer
Australia is the chosen summer destination for a number of species of migrating birds with many of these coming south to feed while their home in the Arctic is frozen over during the Northern Hemisphere's winter.
About 35 or 36 species of waterbirds migrate to Australia on an annual basis involving approximately over 2 million birds and flights of up to 26,000 kilometres; mostly from Alaska and Siberia. Another 15 or 16 species visit occasionally.
Migratory waterbirds include species such as plovers, sandpipers, stints, curlews and snipes.
• Arctic Tern
• Asian Dowitcher
• Bar-tailed Godwit [Northern Siberia]:
• Black-tailed Godwit
• Black-winged Stilt
• Common Greenshank [Northern Hemisphere]
• Common Sandpiper [Russia]
• Curlew Sandpiper [Russia]
• Double Banded Plover
• Eastern Curlew [Russia and north-eastern China]
• Eurasian Whimbrel [Central Siberia to Iceland]
• Great Knot [Siberia and Russia]
• Greater Sand Plover [Mongolia, north-western China and southern Siberia]
• Grey-tailed Tattler [Siberia]
• Grey Plover
• Latham's Snipe
• Lesser Sand Plover [Siberia]
• Little Curlew [Russia]
• Marsh Sandpiper [Europe and Siberia]
• Parasitic Jaeger
• Peregrine Falcon [Northern Hemisphere]
• Red Knot [Siberia and Alaska]
• Red-necked Stint [Siberia]
• Ruddy Turnstone [Eastern Siberia and Western Alaska]
• Sanderling [North America, Russia and the Arctic]
• Sharp-tailed Sandpiper [Northern Siberia]
• Short-tailed Shearwater
• Terek Sandpiper [Russia, Finland, Siberia and the Arctic tundra]
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