Water Birds Found In Australia
Ocean and Inland Water Birds
Water Birds are those that frequent any body of water both sea water and inland water or sometimes both. For example the Pelican in Australia can be found on the vast coastline or at Lake Eyre in the middle of the country.
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List of Water Birds of Australia
Cormorants
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• Black-faced Cormorant [E]
• Great Cormorant
• Little Black Cormorant
• Little Pied Cormorant
• Pied Cormorant
• Brolga
• Australasian Darter
• Macquarie Shag [E]
• Australian Pelican
Stork/Ibis
• Black-necked Stork
• Australian White Ibis
• Glossy Ibis
• Straw-necked Ibis
• Sarus Crane
Grebes
• Australasian Grebe
• Great Crested Grebe
• Hoary-headed Grebe [E]
• Little Grebe
Ducks
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• Australian Wood Duck
• Blue-billed Duck [E]
• Freckled Duck [E]
• Hardhead
• Musk Duck [E]
• Pacific Black Duck
• Pink-eared Duck [E]
• Plumed Whistling Duck [E]
• Wandering Whistling-Duck
• Australian Shelduck [E]
• Radjah Shelduck
• Chestnut Teal [E]
• Grey Teal
• Australasian Shoveler
• Black Swan [E]
• Mute Swan
Geese
• Canada Goose
• Cape Barren Goose [E]
• Cotton Pygmy-Goose
• Green Pygmy Goose
• Magpie Goose
Rails, Coots and Crakes
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• Black-tailed Nativehen; Rail [E]
• Buff-banded Rail
• Chestnut Rail
• Lewin's Rail
• Eurasian Coot
• Australian spotted Crake
• Baillon's Crake
• Red-necked Crake
• Spotless Crake
• White-browed Crake
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Indentifying Australian Birds
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Data Abbreviations Legend
Origin
E - Endemic
R - Resident
M - Migratory
V - Vagrant
Size; in length
L:230-400mm
Location - SEE BIRD MAP
A - All Australia
CY - Cape York
QT - Queensland Wet Tropics
CC - Central Channel Country
EA - Eastern Australia
SE - South Eastern Australia
T - Tasmania
CD - Central/Southern Deserts
SW - South of Western Australia
NW - North West Australia