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This is a list of birds of South Australia:

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Order Struthioniformes

Family Casuariidae

Family Struthionidae

Order Galliformes

Family Megapodiidae

Family Phasianidae

Order Anseriformes

Family Anseranatidae

Family Anatidae

Subfamily Dendrocygninae

Subfamily Oxyurinae

Subfamily Stictonettinae

Subfamily Anserinae

Subfamily Tadorninae

Subfamily Anatinae

Hybrids between Anas platyrhynchos and A. superciliosa also occur.

Order Podicipediformes

Family Podicipedidae

Order Sphenisciformes

Family Spheniscidae

Order Procellariiformes

Family Procellariidae

Family Diomedeidae

Family Hydrobatidae

  • Fregetta tropica (black-bellied storm petrel) — occasional visitor
  • Oceanites nereis (grey-backed storm petrel) — occasional visitor
  • Oceanites oceanicus (Wilson's storm petrel)
  • Oceanodroma leucorhoa (Leach’s storm-petrel) — occasional visitor
  • Pelagodroma marina (white-faced storm petrel)

Order Phaethontiformes

Family Phaethontidae

Order Suliformes

Family Sulidae

Family Anhingidae

Family Phalacrocoracidae

Order Pelecaniformes

Family Pelecanidae

Family Ardeidae

Family Threskiornithidae

Order Accipitriformes

Family Accipitridae

Subfamily Pandioninae

Subfamily Accipitrinae

Order Falconiformes

Family Falconidae

Order Gruiformes

Family Gruidae

Family Rallidae

Order Otidiformes

Family Otididae

Order Charadriiformes

Family Turnicidae

Family Pedionomidae

Family Scolopacidae

Subfamily Gallinagoninae

  • Gallinago hardwickii (Latham's snipe)

Subfamily Tringinae

  • Actitis hypoleucos (common sandpiper)
  • Limosa haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) — occasional visitor
  • Limosa lapponica (bar-tailed godwit)
  • Limosa limosa (black-tailed godwit)
  • Numenius madagascariensis (eastern curlew)
  • Numenius minutus (little curlew)
  • Numenius phaeopus (whimbrel)
  • Tringa brevipes (grey-tailed tattler)
  • Tringa flavipes (lesser yellowlegs) — occasional visitor
  • Tringa glareola (wood sandpiper)
  • Tringa nebularia (common greenshank)
  • Tringa stagnatilis (marsh sandpiper)
  • Tringa totanus (common redshank) — occasional visitor
  • Xenus cinereus (Terek sandpiper)

Subfamily Arenariinae

  • Arenaria interpres (ruddy turnstone)

Subfamily Calidrinae

  • Calidris acuminata (sharp-tailed sandpiper)
  • Calidris alba (sanderling)
  • Calidris bairdii (Baird's sandpiper) — occasional visitor
  • Calidris canutus (red knot)
  • Calidris ferruginea (curlew sandpiper)
  • Calidris fuscicollis (white-rumped sandpiper) — occasional visitor
  • Calidris melanotos (pectoral sandpiper)
  • Calidris minuta (little stint) — occasional visitor

Calidris paramelanotos (Cox’s sandpiper) is now known to be a hybrid between C. ferruginea and C. melanotos.

  • Calidris ruficollis (red-necked stint)
  • Calidris subminuta (long-toed stint)
  • Calidris tenuirostris (great knot)
  • Limicola falcinellus (broad-billed sandpiper) — occasional visitor
  • Philomachus pugnax (ruff)
  • Tryngites subruficollis (buff-breasted sandpiper) — occasional visitor

Subfamily Phalaropodinae

  • Phalaropus fulicaria (grey phalarope) — occasional visitor
  • Phalaropus lobatus (red-necked phalarope) — occasional visitor

Family Rostratulidae

  • Rostratula benghalensis (greater painted-snipe)

Family Burhinidae

Family Haematopodidae

Family Recurvirostridae

Family Charadriidae

Family Glareolidae

  • Glareola maldivarum (Oriental pratincole) — occasional visitor
  • Stiltia isabella (Australian pratincole)

Family Laridae

Subfamily Stercorariinae

  • Catharacta skua (great skua)
  • Catharacta maccormicki (south polar skua) — occasional visitor
  • Stercorarius longicaudus (long-tailed jaeger) — occasional visitor
  • Stercorarius parasiticus (Arctic jaeger)
  • Stercorarius pomarinus (pomarine jaeger)

Subfamily Larinae

Subfamily Sterninae

  • Gelochelidon nilotica (gull-billed tern)
  • Chlidonias hybrida (whiskered tern)
  • Chlidonias leucopterus (white-winged black tern)
  • Sternula albifrons (little tern)
  • Sternula nereis (fairy tern)
  • Onychoprion anaethetus (bridled tern) — occasional visitor
  • Onychoprion fuscatus (sooty tern) — occasional visitor
  • Thalasseus bergii (greater crested tern)
  • Hydroprogne caspia (Caspian tern)
  • Sterna hirundo (common tern)
  • Sterna paradisaea (Arctic tern) — occasional visitor
  • Sterna striata (white-fronted tern)
  • Sterna vittata (Antarctic tern) — occasional visitor

Order Columbiformes

Family Columbidae

Order Psittaciformes

Family Cacatuidae

Family Psittacidae

Order Cuculiformes

Family Cuculidae

Order Strigiformes

Family Strigidae

Family Tytonidae

Order Caprimulgiformes

Family Podargidae

Family Caprimulgidae

Family Aegothelidae

Order Apodiformes

Family Apodidae

  • Apus affinis (house swift) — occasional visitor
  • Apus pacificus (fork-tailed swift)
  • Hirundapus caudacutus (white-throated needletail)

Order Coraciiformes

Family Alcedinidae

Family Meropidae

Family Coraciidae

  • Eurystomus orientalis (dollarbird) — occasional visitor

Order Passeriformes

Family Climacteridae

Family Maluridae

Subfamily Malurinae

Subfamily Amytornithinae

Family Pardalotidae

Family Acanthizidae

Subfamily Dasyornithinae

  • Dasyornis broadbenti (rufous bristlebird)

Subfamily Acanthizinae

Family Meliphagidae

Subfamily Epthianurinae

Family Petroicidae

Family Pomatostomidae

Family Psophodidae

Family Neosittidae

  • Daphoenositta chrysoptera (varied sittella)

Family Pachycephalidae

Family Oreoicidae

Family Dicruridae

Family Artamidae

Family Campephagidae

  • Coracina novaehollandiae (black-faced cuckooshrike)
  • Coracina maxima (ground cuckooshrike)
  • Coracina papuensis (white-bellied cuckooshrike)
  • Coracina tenuirostris (cicadabird) — occasional visitor
  • Lalage tricolor (white-winged triller)

Family Oriolidae

Family Corvidae

Family Corcoracidae

Family Ptilonorhynchidae

Family Turdidae

  • Turdus merula (Eurasian blackbird) — naturalised
  • Zoothera lunulata (bassian thrush)

Family Sturnidae

Family Hirundinidae

Family Zosteropidae

Family Acrocephalidae

Family Locustellidae

Family Cisticolidae

Family Alaudidae

  • Alauda arvensis (Eurasian skylark) — naturalised
  • Mirafra javanica (Horsfield’s bushlark)

Family Dicaeidae

Family Passeridae

Family Motacillidae

  • Anthus novaeseelandiae (Richard's pipit)
  • Motacilla cinerea (grey wagtail) — occasional visitor
  • Motacilla citreola (citrine wagtail) — occasional visitor
  • Motacilla flava (yellow wagtail) — occasional visitor

Family Estrildidae

Family Fringillidae

  • Carduelis carduelis (European goldfinch) — naturalised
  • Chloris chloris (European greenfinch) — naturalised
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