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The Birds of Ashmore Reef comprise three main groups:

  1. Seabirds, including at least five species of breeding terns, with several other seabirds, including petrels, recorded in the surrounding waters
  2. Migratory shorebirds en route from northern Asia to Australia
  3. Landbirds, only three breeding species (two herons and a rail) but several others, including passerines, visit, either on migration to northern Australia or as vagrants

List of birds

Procellariidae

Hydrobatidae

  • Swinhoe's storm-petrel, Oceanodroma monorhis – vagrant

Phaethontidae

Sulidae

Fregatidae

Ardeidae

Rallidae

Turnicidae

  • Red-backed buttonquail, Turnix maculosa – vagrant

Scolopacidae

  • Common sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos - passage migrant
  • Ruddy turnstone, Arenaria interpres - passage migrant
  • Sanderling, Calidris alba - passage migrant
  • Red knot, Calidris canutus - passage migrant
  • Curlew sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea - passage migrant
  • Red-necked stint, Calidris ruficollis - passage migrant
  • Great knot, Calidris tenuirostris - passage migrant
  •  ?Snipe, Gallinago sp. - passage migrant
  • Grey-tailed tattler, Tringa brevipes - passage migrant
  • Asian dowitcher, Limnodromus semipalmatus - passage migrant
  • Bar-tailed godwit, Limosa lapponica - passage migrant
  • Black-tailed godwit, Limosa limosa - passage migrant
  • Eastern curlew, Numenius madagascariensis - passage migrant
  • Little curlew, Numenius minutus - passage migrant
  • Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus - passage migrant
  • Common greenshank, Tringa nebularia - passage migrant
  • Marsh sandpiper, Tringa stagnatilis - passage migrant
  • Common redshank, Tringa totanus - passage migrant

Charadriidae

Stercorariidae

  • Long-tailed jaeger, Stercorarius longicaudus - vagrant
  • Arctic jaeger, Stercorarius parasiticus - vagrant
  • Pomarine jaeger, Stercorarius pomarinus - vagrant

Laridae

Accipitridae

Cuculidae

  • Horsfield's bronze cuckoo, Chrysococcyx basalis - vagrant
  • Little bronze cuckoo, Chrysococcyx minutillus - vagrant
  • Gould's bronze cuckoo, Chrysococcyx russatus - vagrant
  • Oriental cuckoo, Cuculus saturatus - vagrant
  • Common koel, Eudynamys scolopacea – vagrant

Centropodidae

  • Lesser coucal, Centropus bengalensis – vagrant

Caprimulgidae

  • Grey nightjar, Caprimulgus indicus – vagrant

Apodidae

  • White-throated needletail, Hirundapus caudacutus
  • White-nest swiftlet, Aerodramus fuciphagus - vagrant
  • House swift, Apus affinis - vagrant
  • Pacific swift, Apus pacificus

Alcedinidae

Meropidae

Coraciidae

  • Dollarbird, Eurystomus orientalis

Monarchidae

  • Island monarch, Monarcha cinerascens – vagrant

Motacillidae

Estrildidae

  • Pale-headed munia, Lonchura pallida – vagrant

Passeridae

  • Eurasian tree sparrow, Passer montanus - resident

Hirundinidae

Acrocephalidae

  • Oriental reed warbler, Acrocephalus orientalis - vagrant

Locustellidae

  • Middendorff's grasshopper warbler, Locustella ochotensis - vagrant
  • Pallas's grasshopper warbler, Locustella certhiola - vagrant
  • Tawny grassbird, Megalurus timoriensis - vagrant

Phylloscopidae

  • Arctic warbler, Phylloscopus borealis - regular visitor
  • Yellow-browed warbler, Phylloscopus inornatus - vagrant

Muscicapidae

  • Gray-streaked flycatcher, Muscicapa griseisticta - vagrant
  • Dark-sided flycatcher, Muscicapa sibirica - vagrant
  • Asian brown flycatcher, Muscicapa dauurica - vagrant
  • Blue-and-white flycatcher, Cyanoptila cyanomelana - vagrant
  • Siberian blue robin, Larvivora cyane - vagrant
  • Commonwealth of Australia. (2002). Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve and Cartier Island Marine Reserve (Commonwealth Waters) Management Plans. Environment Australia: Canberra.
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