Australia's Local and Offshore
Wildlife and Birdwatching Specialists

Bird List

Offshore Territories
 
Wedge-tailed Eagle

List of birds around Newcastle / Hunter Valley - note that many are seasonal. We can provide a full list of species for specific trips.

Newcastle / Hunter Valley List (Christidis & Boles)
1=common, 2=uncommon, 3=rare
M=migrant, W=winter, S=summer, I=introduced

 

Emu (2)
Australian Brush-turkey (1)
Stubble Quail (2)
Brown Quail (1)
King Quail (3)
Magpie Goose (2)
Plumed Whistling-Duck (2, M)
Wandering Whistling-Duck (3)
Blue billed Duck (3)
Musk Duck (1)
Freckled Duck (3)
Black Swan (1)
Australian Shelduck (3)
Australian Wood Duck (3)
Mallard (2,I)
Pacific Black Duck (1)
Australasian Shoveller (1)
Grey Teal (1)
Chestnut Teal (1)
Garganey (3, S)
Pink-eared Duck (1)
Hardhead (1)
Australasian Grebe (1)
Hoary headed Grebe (2)
Great Crested Grebe (1)
Little Penguin (2)
Southern Giant Petrel (3, W)
Northern Giant Petrel (3, W)
Cape Petrel (2, W)
Tahiti Petrel (3, S)
Great winged Petrel (2)
White headed Petrel (3)
Providence Petrel (2)
Kermadec Petrel (3)
White necked Petrel (3)
Gould's Petrel (2, S)
Antarctic Prion (3, W)
Slender billed Prion (3, W)
Fairy Prion (2, W)
White chinned Petrel (3, S)
Black Petrel (3, M)
Streaked Shearwater (3, S)
Wedge tailed Shearwater (1, S)
Buller's Shearwater (3, S)
Flesh footed Shearwater (2, S)
Sooty Shearwater (3, W)
Short tailed Shearwater (2, S)
Fluttering Shearwater (2)
Hutton's Shearwater (3)
Wandering Albatross
gibsoni (2, W, M)
antipodensis (3, W, M)
exulans (3, W, M)
Black browed Albatross
melanophris (2, W, M)
impavida (2, W, M)
Shy Albatross (2, W)
Indian Yellownosed Albatross (2, W)
Wilson's Storm Petrel (2, M)
White faced Storm Petrel (2, S, M)
White tailed Tropicbird (3, S)
Australasian Gannet (1, M)
Darter (1)
Little Pied Cormorant (1)
Pied Cormorant (1)
Little Black Cormorant (1)
Great Cormorant (1)
Australian Pelican (1)
White faced Heron (1)
Little Egret (1)
Eastern Reef Egret (2)
White-necked Heron (2)
Great Egret (1)
Intermediate Egret (2)
Cattle Egret (1)
Striated Heron (2)
Rufous Night Heron (2)
Little Bittern (3)
Black Bittern (3)
Australasian Bittern (3)
Glossy Ibis (2, M)
Australian White Ibis (1)
Straw necked Ibis (1)
Royal Spoonbill (1)
Yellow billed Spoonbill (1)
Black necked Stork (2)
Osprey (2)
Pacific Baza (2)
Black shouldered Kite (1)
Square tailed Kite (2-3)
Black Kite (3)
Whistling Kite (1)
Brahminy Kite (2)
White bellied Sea Eagle (1)
Spotted Harrier (2)
Swamp Harrier (1)
Brown Goshawk (1)
Grey Goshawk (2)
Collared Sparrowhawk (2)
Wedge tailed Eagle (1)
Little Eagle (2)
Brown Falcon (1)
Australian Hobby (1)
Black Falcon (3)
Peregrine Falcon (2)
Nankeen Kestrel (1)
Buff banded Rail (2)
Lewin's Rail (2)
Baillon's Crake (2)
Australian Spotted Crake (2)
Spotless Crake (2)
Purple Swamphen (1)
Dusky Moorhen (1)
Black tailed Native hen (3)
Eurasian Coot (1)
Red backed Button quail (3)
Little Button quail (3)
Painted Button quail (2)
Latham's Snipe (2, S)
Black tailed Godwit (2, S)
Hudsonian Godwit (3, S)
Bar tailed Godwit (1, S)
Little Curlew (3, S)
Whimbrel (2, S)
Eastern Curlew (1,S)
Marsh Sandpiper (2,S)
Common Greenshank (1, S)
Wood Sandpiper (3, S)
Terek Sandpiper (2, S)
Common Sandpiper (2, S)
Grey tailed Tattler (2, S)
Wandering Tattler (3, S)
Ruddy Turnstone (2, S)
Great Knot (2, S)
Red Knot (1, S)
Sanderling (3, S)
Red necked Stint (2, S)
Pectoral Sandpiper (3, S)
Sharp tailed Sandpiper (2, S)
Curlew Sandpiper (2, S)
Broad billed Sandpiper (3, S)
Ruff (3, S)
Painted Snipe (3)
Comb crested Jacana (2)
Bush Stone-curlew (3)
Beach Stone-curlew (3)
Pied Oystercatcher (2)
Sooty Oystercatcher (2)
Black winged Stilt (2)
Banded Stilt (3)
Red necked Avocet (2)
Pacific Golden Plover (2, S)
Red capped Plover (2)
Double banded Plover (3, W)
Lesser Sand Plover (3, S)
Black fronted Dotterel (2)
Red kneed Dotterel (2, M)
Banded Lapwing (3)
Masked Lapwing (1)
Great Skua (3, W)
Pomarine Jaeger (2, S)
Arctic Jaeger (2, S)
Long tailed Jaeger (3, S)
Pacific Gull (3)
Kelp Gull (3)
Silver Gull (1)
Gull billed Tern (2)
Caspian Tern (2)
Crested Tern (1)
White fronted Tern (2, W)
Common Tern (2, S)
Little Tern (2)
Sooty Tern (3, S)
Whiskered Tern (3)
White winged Black Tern (2-3, S)
Common Noddy (3, S)
Grey Ternlet (3, S)
Rock Dove (1, I)
White headed Pigeon (2)
Spotted Turtle Dove (1, I)
Brown Cuckoo Dove (2)
Emerald Dove (2)
Common Bronzewing (2)
Brush Bronzewing (2-3)
Crested Pigeon (1)
Diamond Dove (3)
Peaceful Dove (2)
Bar shouldered Dove (2)
Wonga Pigeon (2)
Wompoo Fruit Dove (2)
Superb Fruit Dove (3)
Rose crowned Fruit Dove (3)
Topknot Pigeon (2, M)
Glossy Black Cockatoo (2)
Yellow tailed Black Cockatoo (2)
Gang gang Cockatoo (2)
Galah (1)
Long billed Corella (2, I)

Little Corella (2, I)
Sulphur crested Cockatoo (1)
Rainbow Lorikeet (1)
Scaly breasted Lorikeet (2)
Musk Lorikeet (2, M)
Little Lorikeet (2)
Australian King-Parrot (1-2)
Red winged Parrot (3)
Ground parrot (2-3)
Crimson Rosella (1)
Eastern Rosella (1)
Swift Parrot (2-3)
Red rumped Parrot (2)
Turquoise Parrot (2-3)
Oriental Cuckoo (3, S)
Pallid Cuckoo (2, S)
Brush Cuckoo (1, S)
Fan tailed Cuckoo (1)
Black eared Cuckoo (3)
Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo (2)
Shining Bronze Cuckoo (2)
Little Bronze Cuckoo (3)
Australian Koel (1, S)
Channel billed Cuckoo (2, S)
Pheasant Coucal (2)
Powerful Owl (2)
Barking Owl (3)
Southern Boobook (1-2)
Sooty Owl (2)
Masked Owl (3)
Barn Owl (2)
Grass Owl (3)
Tawny Frogmouth (1-2)
White throated Nightjar (2)
Spotted Nightjar (3)
Australian Owlet Nightjar (1-2)
White throated Needletail (2, S)
Fork tailed Swift (2-3, S)
Azure Kingfisher (2)
Laughing Kookaburra (1)
Forest Kingfisher (3)
Sacred Kingfisher (1-2, S)
Rainbow Bee eater (2, S)
Dollarbird (1, S)
Noisy Pitta (2)
Superb Lyrebird (2)
Rufous Scrub-bird (2)
White throated Treecreeper (1)
Red browed Treecreeper (2)
Superb Fairy wren (1)
Variegated Fairy wren (2)
Red backed Fairy wren (3)
Southern Emu wren (2)
Spotted Pardalote (1)
Striated Pardalote (2)
Eastern Bristlebird (3)
Pilotbird (3)
Rockwarbler (2-3)
Yellow throated Scrubwren (1-2)
White browed Scrubwren (1)
Large billed Scrubwren (2)
Chestnut rumped Heathwren (2)
Speckled Warbler (2)
Weebill (2)
Brown Gerygone (1)
Mangrove Gerygone (1)
Western Gerygone (2)
White throated Gerygone (1-2, S)
Brown Thornbill (1)
Buff rumped Thornbill (1-2)
Yellow rumped Thornbill (1)
Yellow Thornbill (1)
Striated Thornbill (1)
Southern Whiteface (2)
Red Wattlebird (1)
Little Wattlebird (1)
Striped Honeyeater (2)
Noisy Friarbird (1)
Little Friarbird (3, M)
Regent Honeyeater (2, M)
Blue faced Honeyeater (2)
Bell Miner (1)
Noisy Miner (1)
Lewin's Honeyeater (1)
Yellow faced Honeyeater (1)
Singing Honeyeater (3)
Mangrove Honeyeater (3)
White eared Honeyeater (2)
Yellow tufted Honeyeater (2)
Fuscous Honeyeater (2)
White plumed Honeyeater (1)
Black chinned Honeyeater (3)
Brown headed Honeyeater (2-3)
White naped Honeyeater (1-2)
Brown Honeyeater (2)
Painted Honeyeater (3)
Crescent Honeyeater (2)
New Holland Honeyeater (1-2)
White cheeked Honeyeater (1-2)
Tawny crowned Honeyeater (2)
Eastern Spinebill (1-2)
Scarlet Honeyeater (2)
White fronted Chat (1-2)
Jacky Winter (1-2)
Scarlet Robin (1-2)
Red capped Robin (2)
Flame Robin (2)
Rose Robin (2)
Hooded Robin (2)
Pale yellow Robin (2)
Eastern Yellow Robin (1)
Logrunner (2)
Grey crowned Babbler (2)
White browed Babbler (2)
Eastern Whipbird (1)
Spotted Quail thrush (2)
Varied Sittella (1-2)
Crested Shrike tit (2)
Crested Bellbird (3)
Olive Whistler (2-3)
Golden Whistler (1)
Rufous Whistler (1, S)
Little Shrike thrush (3)
Grey Shrike thrush (1)
Black faced Monarch (2, S)
Spectacled Monarch (2, S)
Leaden Flycatcher (2, S)
Satin Flycatcher (2-3)
Restless Flycatcher (2)
Magpie-lark (1)
Rufous Fantail (1-2)
Grey Fantail (1)
Willie Wagtail (1)
Spangled Drongo (2, W)
Black faced Cuckoo shrike (1)
Barred Cuckoo shrike (3)
White bellied Cuckoo shrike (2)
Cicadabird (2, S)
Ground Cuckoo shrike (3)
White winged Triller (2)
Varied Triller (2-3)
Olive backed Oriole (1)
Figbird (1)
White breasted Woodswallow (2)
Masked Woodswallow (3, S)
White browed Woodswallow (3, S)
Dusky Woodswallow (2)
Little Woodswallow (3)
Grey Butcherbird (1)
Pied Butcherbird (1)
Australian Magpie (1)
Pied Currawong (1)
Grey Currawong (3)
Paradise Riflebird (2-3)
Australian Raven (1)
Forest Raven (3)
Little Raven (2)
Torresian Crow (2)
White winged Chough (1-2)
Green Catbird (2)
Regent Bowerbird (2)
Satin Bowerbird (1-2)
Singing Bushlark (3)
Skylark (3, I)
Australian Pipit (1)
Yellow Wagtail (3)
Black backed Wagtail (3)
House Sparrow (1, I)
Zebra Finch (2)
Double-barred Finch (2)
Plum headed Finch (3)
Redbrowed Finch (1)
Diamond Firetail (2)
Nutmeg Mannikin (3, I)
Chestnut-breasted Mannikin (2)
European Goldfinch (1-2)
Mistletoebird (1-2)
White backed Swallow (3, M)
Welcome Swallow (1)
Tree Martin (1-2)
Fairy Martin (1-2)
Red whiskered Bulbul (2, I)
Australian Reed warbler (1, S)
Tawny Grassbird (2)
Little Grassbird (2)
Rufous Songlark (2, S)
Brown Songlark (2)
Golden headed Cisticola (1-2)
Silvereye (1)
Bassian Thrush (2)
Russet-tailed Thrush (2-3)
Common Blackbird (2-3, I)
Common Starling (1, I)
Common Myna (1, I)

 

List of Common Birds

Common Birds around Newcastle/Hunter Valley/Sydney
(Christidis & Boles)

 

Black Swan
Pacific Black Duck
Grey Teal
Darter
Little Pied Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Australian Pelican
White faced Heron
Little Egret
Great Egret
Cattle Egret
Australian White Ibis
Straw necked Ibis
Black shouldered Kite
Whistling Kite
White bellied Sea Eagle
Swamp Harrier
Wedge tailed Eagle
Brown Falcon
Australian Hobby
Australian Kestrel
Purple Swamphen
Dusky Moorhen
Eurasian Coot
Masked Lapwing
Silver Gull
Crested Tern
Rock Dove
Spotted Turtle Dove
Crested Pigeon
Galah
Sulphur crested Cockatoo
Rainbow Lorikeet
Crimson Rosella
Eastern Rosella
Australian Koel
Laughing Kookaburra
Dollarbird
Superb Fairy wren
Spotted Pardalote
White browed Scrubwren
Yellow rumped Thornbill



Red Wattlebird
Little Wattlebird
Noisy Friarbird
Noisy Miner
Yellow faced Honeyeater
White plumed Honeyeater
Golden Whistler
Grey Shrike thrush
Magpie-lark
Grey Fantail
Willie Wagtail
Black faced Cuckoo shrike
Figbird
Grey Butcherbird
Pied Butcherbird
Australian Magpie
Pied Currawong
Australian Raven
Australian Pipit
House Sparrow
Red browed Finch
Welcome Swallow
Silvereye
Common Starling
Common Myna