Banded Plover
Easily identified by the distinctive black cap and the yellow bill and eye separated by a bright red ...

Barn Owl
Male and female barn owls are identical in their colouration. The round, pure white face, punctuated ...

Black Swan
A mature black swan measures 120-130cm from bill to tail. The juveniles are covered in grey fluffy d ...

Boobook Owl
The boobook owl does not posses the distinctive facial mask of the barn or masked owls. Boobooks are ...

Bush Stone Curlew
The bush stone curlew has grey feathers with black and white streaks, tinted with varying shades of ...

Cape Barren Goose
The Cape Barren goose is a large robust bird with a length from bill to tail of 75-100cm. Its plumag ...

Cassowary
The female cassowary can be distinguished from the male by her larger size, more vibrant colours aro ...

Eastern Spinebill
An attractively marked, tiny honeyeater with a long, downward curving beak for probing deep into lon ...

Eastern Whipbird
Undoubtedly, the whipbird produces one of the most recognised calls of any Australian bird, however, ...

Emerald Ground Dove
The iridescent green wings and shoulders are the most striking features of the emerald ground dove. ...

Emu
The emu is Australia’s largest bird. Standing at 2m tall it has a flat breast bone instead of the us ...

Gang-gang Cockatoo
The male gang-gang is unmistakable in his plumage of smoky grey with a bright red head and crest. Th ...

Grey Fantail
Fantails are active flycatchers, characterised by their fanned tail and restless behaviour. These sm ...

King Parrot
Surely one of the most beautiful of all the parrots, the male king parrot is resplendent in his plum ...

Kookaburra
No bird epitomizes the Australian bush more than the kookaburra, mainly due to its unique and comica ...

Magpie Goose
The magpie goose is distinctively black and white and has a long neck. Its length from beak to tail ...

Magpie-lark
A familiar bird to most Australians, the magpie-lark or peewee is simply but distinctively coloured ...

Tawny Frogmouth
The tawny frogmouth is a perfect example of nature's camouflage at its best. The silvery-grey plumag ...

Masked Owl
The female masked owl is larger than the male, measuring about 47 cm in length, where as the males a ...

New Holland Honeyeater
A striking honeyeater with a black head marked with white tufts on top and around the ear. The eye i ...

Pheasant Coucal
The pheasant coucal is not a pheasant but a longed-tailed relative of the cuckoo with rufous barred ...

Pied Currawong
Although resembling crows, currawongs are actually in the same family as the Australian magpies and ...

Purple Swamphen
The purple swamphen has a bright red beak and frontal shield on the front of the head. The breast an ...

Rainbow Lorikeet
The rainbow lorikeet is aptly named. Its head is violet-blue, upper breast is orange-red, the abdome ...

Red-browed Finch
A distinctive little bird with bright red eyebrow markings and a similarly coloured stout beak. The ...

Red Wattlebird
With its striated colouration of dark brown, white and grey, the red wattlebird is so named because ...

Regent Bowerbird
Surely, one of the most stunningly coloured of all birds, the male regent bowerbird is unmistakable ...

Satin Bowerbird
Male and female satin bowerbirds are totally different in appearance. Males are entirely an iridesce ...

Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
Both sexes have a general colour of bright green. The breast is flecked with yellow giving an appear ...

Silver Gull
Male and female silver gulls are identical with a predominantly white body and grey wings. The bill ...

Superb Blue Wren
The most noticeable feature of the superb blue wren is its long, erect tail which can measure up to ...

Turquoise Parrot
The male turquoise parrot's face and cheeks are vivid turquoise blue and the under parts rich daffod ...

White-browed Woodswallow
A subtly attractive bird with pastel grey head, throat and uppersides highlighted with white eyebrow ...

White-headed Pigeon
Only the adult male has a truly white head in this species. In the female and immature birds the hea ...

Wonga Pigeon
A beautiful, robust pigeon with a pastel blue-grey back, fading to creamy-white on the front of the ...

Eastern Yellow Robin
These birds were named by the early settlers to Australia after their size and behaviour reminded th ...

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
The male's general colour is brownish-black, with lighter edges to the feathers of the back, the nec ...

Black Shouldered Kite
Medium to large whitish bird. Adults can reach 35 cm, with a 90 cm wing span. The top of the wing is ...

Regent Parrot
The Regent Parrot is a slim parrot with a long, dusky tapering tail and back-swept wings. It is most ...

Superb Parrots
The Superb Parrot is a medium-sized parrot, with a swift and graceful flight. Its tail is long and t ...

Musk Lorikeet
The Musk Lorikeet is a medium-sized, sturdy lorikeet, sometimes seen in large flocks when trees are ...

Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove
The Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove is a small, compact dove, with a short tail and rounded wings. Its name ...

Blue Winged Kookaburra
The Blue-winged Kookaburra is a large kingfisher with a big square head and a long bill. It has a di ...

Bar-shouldered Dove
The Bar-shouldered Dove is a medium-sized, long-tailed dove. Adults doves have a blue-grey head, nec ...

Blue-faced Honeyeater
The Blue-faced Honeyeater is a large black, white and golden olive-green honeyeater with striking bl ...

Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo
The Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo is mostly glossy black and has an erectile crest which forms an obviou ...

Topknot Pigeon
The Topknot Pigeon is a large grey pigeon with a swept back crest that is grey in front and rusty re ...

Common Bronzewing
Common Bronzewings are medium-sized, heavily built pigeons. The male has a yellow-white forehead and ...

Green Catbird
The Green Catbird is a large, stout green bird, spotted white, with a dusky crown, nape and face and ...

Chestnut Teal
The Chestnut Teal is a small dabbling duck with a high forehead and rounded head. Males are distinct ...

Eclectus Parrot
The male Eclectus Parrot is bright green except for red under the wings and a bright orange beak and ...

Chestnut rail
Thickset, with gray head and pinkish brown underparts. Three color morphs, with upperparts olive, ch ...

Princess Parrot
The Princess Parrot is a medium sized parrot, 34 to 46 cms long. The plumage is mostly green with a ...

Black-winged Stilt
The Black-winged Stilt is a large black and white wader with long orange-red legs and a straight bla ...

Torresian Imperial-pigeon
The Torresian Imperial-pigeon is a large plump pigeon, 38-44 centimetres (15-17.5 inches) in length ...