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Emu and Cassowaries [Order: Struthioniiformes, Family: Casuariidae]
The Cassowary is a large flightless rainforest bird about the size of an Emu. It has brilliant blue and purple head and neck and red wattles. The body has black feathers. Cassowary feathers differ...
Cassowary
(Casuarius casuarius) 		The Emu is a large flightless bird and is one of the world's largest birds. It is slightly smaller than the Ostrich. They have strong legs and run fast- up to 50 kilometres per hour. Emus are good...
Emu
(Dromaius novaehollandiae)

Penguins [Order: Sphenisciformes, Family: Spheniscidae]
The King Penguin is the largest penguin recorded in Australia. The head is black, back is grey and chest is white. The back of the head has a yellow tear-shaped mark. Bill has pink at base.
King Penguin
(Aptenodytes patagonicus) 		The Rockhopper Penguin has black head and dark blue grey back with white front. The crest has black feathers on top of head and yellow plumes above the eye. These yellow feathers stick out when dry...
Rockhopper Penguin
(Eudyptes chrysocome) 		The Fairy Penguin is the smallest species of penguin and the only one to breed in Australia. To keep them warm and dry, their feathers are oily due to oil glands in the penguins tail. Fairy penguins...
Fairy Penguin
(Eudyptula minor)

Storm-Petrels [Order: Procellariiformes, Family: Hydrobatidae]

White-faced Storm-Petrel
(Pelagodroma marina)

Petrels, Shearwaters [Order: Procellariiformes, Family: Procellariidae]

Bullers Shearwater
(Puffinus bulleri)
Short-tailed Shearwater
(Puffinus tenuirostris) 		The Fleshy-footed Shearwater is a large very dark brown petrel. The bill is pale flesh or whitish green tipped with dark grey. The legs and feet are pink.
Sooty Shearwater
(Puffinus griseus) 		The Wedge-tailed Shearwater is a grey-brown petrel with distinctive wedge-shaped tail. It has a grey bill and pink feet. Most of these birds in Australia are dark all over, but some are white...
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
(Puffinus pacificus)

Boobies, Gannets [Order: Procellariiformes, Family: Sulidae]
The Australian Gannet is white with buff coloured head and black flight feathers. Dark grey feet with yellow or green lines.
Australian Gannet
(Morus serrator) 		The Brown Booby is a dark brown bird with white underside.. Bill cream or grey. Male has blue skin at base of bill.
Brown Booby
(Sula leucogaster) 		The Masked Booby is a large white gannet with dark brown flight feathers and brown tail. The bill is bright yellow in male and greenish yellow in female. The feet are blue-grey.
Masked Booby
(Sula dactylatra) 		The Red-footed Booby blue bill with pink base, and pink or red feet. There are different colour variations. The light ones are white with black wing flight feathers, and yellowish tinge on head. The...
Red-footed Booby
(Sula sula)

Darters [Order: Pelecaniformes, Family: Anhingidae]
The Darter is a large slender water bird with a long snake-like neck and sharp pointed bill. Male Darters are dark brownish black with chestnut brown under parts. The wings are glossy black on top,...
Darter
(Anhinga melanogaster)

Frigatebirds [Order: Pelecaniformes, Family: Fregatidae]
The Greater Frigatebird is a large dark coloured bird with long wings and forked tail. It has slender hooked beak and small feet. The male is all black. The female has white breast. Breeding males...
Greater Frigatebird
(Fregata minor)
Lesser Frigatebird
(Fregata ariel)

Pelicans [Order: Pelecaniformes, Family: Pelecanidae]
The Australian Pelican is an the only pelican in Australia and is an unmistakable large black and white bird. The Pelican's bill is 40 cm - 50 cm long and is larger in males than females.
Australian Pelican
(Pelecanus conspicillatus)

Tropicbirds [Order: Pelecaniformes, Family: Phaethontidae]
Tropicbirds look like large terns with strong down-curved bills. They have short legs set far back - this makes them shuffle on their belly when on land. The Red-tailed Tropicbird is white with a red...
Red-tailed Tropicbird
(Phaethon rubricauda) 		Tropicbirds look like large terns with strong down-curved bills. They have short legs set far back - this makes them shuffle on their belly when on land. The White-tailed Tropicbird is white with...
White-tailed Tropicbird
(Phaethon lepturus)

Cormorants [Order: Pelecaniformes, Family: Phalacrocoracidae]
The Black-faced Cormorant is a large cormorant with black upper parts, a bare black face, and white under parts. The legs and feet are black and there is a black mark on the thigh. The bill is dark...
Black-faced Cormorant
(Phalacrocorax fuscescens) 		The Great Cormorant is mainly black except for some white and yellow on the face. There is a small white patch on each thigh during summer. The bill is grey and the legs and feet are black. Juveniles...
Great Cormorant
(Phalacrocorax carbo) 		The Little Black Cormorant is a black cormorant with a greenish sheen to the back and a slender grey hooked bill.
Little Black Cormorant
(Phalacrocorax sulcirostris) 		The Little Pied Cormorant is black above and white below. The face is dusky and, in adult birds, the white of the underside extends to above the eye. Immature birds resemble the adults except there...
Little Pied Cormorant
(Phalacrocorax melanoleucos)

Grebes [Order: Podicipediformes, Family: Podicipedidae]
The Hoary-headed Grebe is a fairly small dark grey and white grebe. It has a brown eye and a black patch under the chin, and a narrow black streak down the back of the neck During the breeding...
Hoary-headed Grebe
(Podiceps poliocephalus) 		The non-breeding plumage of both the male and female Australasian Grebe is dark grey-brown above and mostly silver-grey below, with a white oval patch of bare skin at the base of the bill. During...
Australasian Grebe
(Tachybaptus novaehollandiae)

Egrets, Herons, Bitterns [Order: Ciconiiformes, Family: Ardeidae]
The Cattle Egret is a small white egret. In breeding season has tan head, neck and breast.
Cattle Egret
(Ardea ibis) 		The Great Egret is a large white water bird with yellow bill. The neck is about one and a half times as long as the body. It has dark grey or black legs. The bill becomes very dark almost black in...
Great Egret
(Ardea alba) 		The Pacific Heron has a white head and neck and dark grey body and wings, with black bill and black legs. No other Australian heron has these colours. The breeding plumage has maroon coloured plumes...
Pacific Heron
(Ardea pacifica) 		The Pied Heron is grey with a yellow bill and legs. The top of the head and crest is black and face and neck are white. Immatures are brown or grey above with no crest and have white head, neck and...
Pied Heron
(Ardea picata)
The Striated Heron is a squat heron with large head and small drooping crest. The back and wings are green grey, with wing feathers outlined with yellow The neck is streaked down the centre with...
Striated Heron
(Butorides striatus) 		The Intermediate Egret is a medium sized white egret. It looks similar to the Great Egret, but is smaller, has a more rounded head and the orange bill is shorter and not so acute angled. The neck is...
Intermediate Egret
(Egretta intermedia) 		The Little Egret is a small white egret with grey-black legs, black bill and a bright yellow naked face. In the breeding season has two long head plumes,
Little Egret
(Egretta garzetta) 		The Reef Heron has two colour variations. Some birds have white plumage and others are charcoal-grey. They all have yellow legs and brown beaks.
Reef Heron
(Egretta sacra)
The White-faced Heron is light blue-grey heron with a white face. Young birds have less white on the face. Adults have yellow legs and juveniles have greenish yellow legs.
White-faced Heron
(Egretta novaehollandiae) 		The Nankeen Night-heron is a compact heron with large head and stooped posture. The crown and back of neck is black. The back is rufous red and underside is creamy white with buff tinge. During...
Nankeen Night-heron
(Nycticorax caledonicus)

Storks [Order: Ciconiiformes, Family: Ciconiidae]
The Jabiru, or Black-necked Stork, is the only stork found in Australia. It is a tall bird with a black and white body, dark green and purple neck and large black bill. The legs are long and...
Jabiru
(Jabiru asiaticus)

Ibises, Spoonbills [Order: Ciconiiformes, Family: Threskiornithidae]
The Royal Spoonbill is a large white water bird with black spoon-shaped bill
Royal Spoonbill
(Platalea regia) 		The Yellow-billed Spoonbill is a large, white waterbird with a yellow face and spoon-shaped bill. The legs and feet are yellow. Breeding plumage has long wing plumes tipped with black and long breast...
Yellow-billed Spoonbill
(Platalea flavipes) 		The Glossy Ibis is a small dark coloured ibis. The neck is dark reddish brown and the body is dark brown with a metallic sheen on the wings. The long curved bill is olive brown, and the legs and feet...
Glossy Ibis
(Plegadis falcinellus) 		The Australian White Ibis is mostly white except for a bare black head.
Australian White Ibis
(Threskiornis molucca)
The Straw-necked Ibis is a large water bird with a naked black head, long curved black bill and yellow throat plumes.
Straw-necked Ibis
(Threskiornis spinicollis)

Ducks, Geese and Swans [Order: Anseriformes, Family: Anatidae]

Chestnut Teal
(Anas castanea)
Grey Teal
(Anas gracilis) 		The Black Duck is an average-sized duck that looks a bit like a Mallard duck. The body is dark-brown with a pale face and throat. It has a distinctive black eye-stripe that stretches from the top of...
Pacific Black Duck
(Anas superciliosa) 		The White-eyed Duck is a small brown duck with white eye and blackish bill. Female is paler brown with dark eye and blue-grey bill.
White-eyed Duck
(Aythya australis)
The Cape Barren Goose is a large grey goose with short tail, and dark spots on wings. The bill is black, but mostly covered with greenish-yellow skin (called cere). The legs are pink or red.
Cape Barren Goose
(Cereopsis novaehollandiae) 		The Wood Duck is a medium-sized duck with a short head. It is light coloured with dark head. Males have black belly and pale grey flanks. Females have a white belly and mottled grey flanks. Females...
Australian Wood Duck
(Chenonetta jubata) 		The Black Swan is a large water bird with all black plumage, except for the red bill, dark grey legs and white tips of the wing feathers. Both sexes are similar, with female slightly smaller and...
Black Swan
(Cygnus atratus) 		The Grass Whistling Duck has distinctive pale plumed feathers on wings. Makes a distinctive whistling call.
Plumed Whistling Duck
(Dendrocygna eytoni)




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