Sea Birds
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Boobies, Gannets
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Australian Gannet
(Morus serrator)
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The Australian Gannet is white with buff coloured head and black flight feathers. Dark grey feet with yellow or green lines. Read more >
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Brown Booby
(Sula leucogaster)
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The Brown Booby is a dark brown bird with white underside.. Bill cream or grey. Male has blue skin at base of bill. Read more >
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Masked Booby
(Sula dactylatra)
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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. Read more >
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Red-footed Booby
(Sula sula)
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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 dark ones have light grey head and body and... Read more >
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Frigatebirds
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Greater Frigatebird
(Fregata minor)
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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 have a red throat sac that can be blown up to... Read more >
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Gulls, Terns, Noddies, Skuas, Jaegers
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White-capped Noddy
(Anous minutus)
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The White-capped Noddy is a type of tern often seen around Pacific islands including the Great Barrier Reef. The adult has white cap; the juvenile has darker cap. Read more >
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Pacific Gull
(Larus pacificus)
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The Pacific Gull is a gull with black back and large yellow bill with red tip. The upper wings and wingtips are black. The tail is white with black band near the end. The legs are yellow. Juveniles are mottled dark brown with pale face and the bill... Read more >
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Silver Gull
(Larus novaehollandiae)
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The Silver Gull is the most common Australian gull. White with silver grey upper parts. White eye. Read more >
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Crested Tern
(Sterna bergii)
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The Crested Tern has a pale yellow bill, black crest, grey wings and back, and a white neck and underparts. Read more >
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Penguins
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King Penguin
(Aptenodytes patagonicus)
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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. Read more >
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Rockhopper Penguin
(Eudyptes chrysocome)
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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 and are flattened back when wet. The bill is... Read more >
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Fairy Penguin
(Eudyptula minor)
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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 come ashore in groups to their burrows after dark... Read more >
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Petrels, Shearwaters
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Wedge-tailed Shearwater
(Puffinus pacificus)
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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 breasted. Read more >
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Tropicbirds
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Red-tailed Tropicbird
(Phaethon rubricauda)
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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 or orange bill and black feet. It has two long... Read more >
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White-tailed Tropicbird
(Phaethon lepturus)
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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 long flexible tail streamers (the central two... Read more >
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