Birds of Western Australia
606 bird species have been recorded in Western Australia on the eBird network — explore the 604 in the Birbs encyclopedia, and see which are being reported near you right now.
606 bird species have been recorded in Western Australia on eBird, the global citizen-science database run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 604 of them have a full profile in the Birbs encyclopedia — start with the well-known birds below, browse the complete list, then check which are being reported near you right now.
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Birds to know first
Abbott’s BoobyPapasula abbotti
African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
Alexandrine ParakeetPsittacula eupatria
American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
Amsterdam AlbatrossDiomedea amsterdamensis
Antarctic PrionPachyptila desolata
Antipodean AlbatrossDiomedea antipodensis
Arafura FantailRhipidura dryas
Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
Arctic WarblerPhylloscopus borealis
Asian Brown FlycatcherMuscicapa dauurica
Asian DowitcherLimnodromus semipalmatus
Asian KoelEudynamys scolopaceus
Atlantic CanarySerinus canaria
Atlantic PetrelPterodroma incerta
Atlantic Yellow-nosed AlbatrossThalassarche chlororhynchos
Australasian BitternBotaurus poiciloptilus
Australasian DarterAnhinga novaehollandiae
Australasian FigbirdSphecotheres vieilloti
Australasian GannetMorus serrator
Australasian GrebeTachybaptus novaehollandiae
Australasian ShovelerSpatula rhynchotis
Australasian SwamphenPorphyrio melanotus
Australian BoobookNinox boobook
Australian BustardArdeotis australis
Australian CrakePorzana fluminea
Australian Golden WhistlerPachycephala pectoralis
Australian HobbyFalco longipennis
Australian MagpieGymnorhina tibicen
Australian Masked OwlTyto novaehollandiae
The full checklist — 604 birds of Western Australia in our library
- Abbott’s Booby
- African Collared Dove
- Alexandrine Parakeet
- American Golden Plover
- Amsterdam Albatross
- Antarctic Prion
- Antipodean Albatross
- Arafura Fantail
- Arctic Tern
- Arctic Warbler
- Asian Brown Flycatcher
- Asian Dowitcher
- Asian Koel
- Atlantic Canary
- Atlantic Petrel
- Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross
- Australasian Bittern
- Australasian Darter
- Australasian Figbird
- Australasian Gannet
- Australasian Grebe
- Australasian Shoveler
- Australasian Swamphen
- Australian Boobook
- Australian Bustard
- Australian Crake
- Australian Golden Whistler
- Australian Hobby
- Australian Magpie
- Australian Masked Owl
- Australian Owlet-nightjar
- Australian Painted-snipe
- Australian Pelican
- Australian Pied Cormorant
- Australian Pipit
- Australian Pratincole
- Australian Raven
- Australian Reed Warbler
- Australian Ringneck
- Australian Shelduck
- Australian Tern
- Australian White Ibis
- Azure Kingfisher
- Baillon’s Crake
- Baird’s Sandpiper
- Banded Honeyeater
- Banded Lapwing
- Banded Stilt
- Banded Whiteface
- Bar-breasted Honeyeater
- Bar-shouldered Dove
- Bar-tailed Godwit
- Barau’s Petrel
- Barking Owl
- Barn Swallow
- Baudin’s Black Cockatoo
- Beach Stone-curlew
- Black Bittern
- Black Butcherbird
- Black Falcon
- Black Grasswren
- Black Honeyeater
- Black Kite
- Black Noddy
- Black Swan
- Black-backed Bittern
- Black-bellied Storm Petrel
- Black-breasted Buzzard
- Black-browed Albatross
- Black-chinned Honeyeater
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Black-eared Cuckoo
- Black-faced Cormorant
- Black-faced Cuckooshrike
- Black-faced Woodswallow
- Black-fronted Dotterel
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-necked Stork
- Black-shouldered Kite
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Black-tailed Gull
- Black-tailed Nativehen
- Black-tailed Treecreeper
- Blue Petrel
- Blue Rock Thrush
- Blue-and-white Flycatcher
- Blue-billed Duck
- Blue-billed White Tern
- Blue-breasted Fairywren
- Blue-faced Honeyeater
- Blue-faced Parrotfinch
- Blue-winged Kookaburra
- Blue-winged Pitta
- Bourke’s Parrot
- Brahminy Kite
- Bridled Tern
- Broad-billed Flycatcher
- Broad-billed Prion
- Broad-billed Sandpiper
- Brolga
- Brown Booby
- Brown Falcon
- Brown Goshawk
- Brown Honeyeater
- Brown Noddy
- Brown Quail
- Brown Skua
- Brown Songlark
- Brown-headed Honeyeater
- Brown-streaked Flycatcher
- Brush Bronzewing
- Budgerigar
- Buff-banded Rail
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Buff-sided Robin
- Buller’s Albatross
- Bulwer’s Petrel
- Bush Stone-curlew
- Canary White-eye
- Cape Barren Goose
- Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo
- Caspian Tern
- Channel-billed Cuckoo
- Chestnut Rail
- Chestnut Teal
- Chestnut-backed Buttonquail
- Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
- Chestnut-rumped Thornbill
- Chiming Wedgebill
- Chinese Pond Heron
- Chinese Sparrowhawk
- Cinnamon Bittern
- Citrine Wagtail
- Cockatiel
- Collared Kingfisher
- Collared Pratincole
- Collared Sparrowhawk
- Comb-crested Jacana
- Common Bronzewing
- Common Diving Petrel
- Common Greenshank
- Common Gull
- Common Hoopoe
- Common Moorhen
- Common Ostrich
- Common Pheasant
- Common Redshank
- Common Ringed Plover
- Common Sandpiper
- Common Starling
- Common Tern
- Cook’s Petrel
- Copperback Quail-thrush
- Cory’s Shearwater
- Crested Bellbird
- Crested Honey Buzzard
- Crested Pigeon
- Crimson Chat
- Crimson Finch
- Crimson Rosella
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Dark-sided Flycatcher
- Diamond Dove
- Diamond Firetail
- Double-banded Plover
- Double-barred Finch
- Dusky Gerygone
- Dusky Grasswren
- Dusky Moorhen
- Dusky Myzomela
- Dusky Woodswallow
- Eastern Barn Owl
- Eastern Cattle Egret
- Eastern Grass Owl
- Eastern Red-rumped Swallow
- Eastern Rosella
- Eastern Yellow Wagtail
- Edible-nest Swiftlet
- Elegant Parrot
- Emu
- Eurasian Coot
- Eurasian Curlew
- Eurasian Hobby
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow
- Eurasian Whimbrel
- Eurasian Wigeon
- European Goldfinch
- Eyebrowed Thrush
- Fairy Martin
- Fairy Pitta
- Fairy Prion
- Fairy Tern
- Fan-tailed Cuckoo
- Far Eastern Curlew
- Fiordland Penguin
- Flesh-footed Shearwater
- Flock Bronzewing
- Fluttering Shearwater
- Forest Wagtail
- Franklin’s Gull
- Freckled Duck
- Galah
- Garganey
- Gilbert’s Honeyeater
- Gilbert’s Whistler
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden-headed Cisticola
- Gould’s Petrel
- Gouldian Finch
- Great Bowerbird
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Grebe
- Great Egret
- Great Frigatebird
- Great Knot
- Great Shearwater
- Great-billed Heron
- Great-winged Petrel
- Greater Crested Tern
- Greater Sand Plover
- Green Oriole
- Green Pygmy Goose
- Green-backed Gerygone
- Grey Butcherbird
- Grey Currawong
- Grey Falcon
- Grey Fantail
- Grey Goshawk
- Grey Honeyeater
- Grey Petrel
- Grey Plover
- Grey Shrikethrush
- Grey Teal
- Grey Wagtail
- Grey-backed Storm Petrel
- Grey-crowned Babbler
- Grey-faced Petrel
- Grey-fronted Honeyeater
- Grey-headed Albatross
- Grey-headed Honeyeater
- Grey-headed Lapwing
- Grey-streaked Flycatcher
- Grey-tailed Tattler
- Greylag Goose
- Ground Cuckooshrike
- Ground Parrot
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hardhead
- Heinroth’s Shearwater
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Hoary-headed Grebe
- Hooded Plover
- Hooded Robin
- Horsfield’s Bronze Cuckoo
- House Crow
- House Sparrow
- House Swift
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Hutton’s Shearwater
- Indian Peafowl
- Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross
- Inland Dotterel
- Inland Thornbill
- Island Monarch
- Jacky Winter
- Javan Plover
- Javan Pond Heron
- Jouanin’s Petrel
- Kamchatka Leaf Warbler
- Kelp Gull
- Kerguelen Petrel
- Kermadec Petrel
- King Penguin
- King Quail
- Large-billed Gerygone
- Latham’s Snipe
- Laughing Dove
- Laughing Gull
- Laughing Kookaburra
- Leaden Flycatcher
- Lemon-bellied Flyrobin
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Crested Tern
- Lesser Frigatebird
- Lesser Noddy
- Letter-winged Kite
- Light-mantled Albatross
- Little Black Cormorant
- Little Bronze Cuckoo
- Little Buttonquail
- Little Corella
- Little Crow
- Little Curlew
- Little Eagle
- Little Egret
- Little Friarbird
- Little Grassbird
- Little Heron
- Little Penguin
- Little Pied Cormorant
- Little Raven
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Shearwater
- Little Shrikethrush
- Little Stint
- Little Tern
- Little Woodswallow
- Long-billed Corella
- Long-tailed Finch
- Long-tailed Jaeger
- Long-toed Stint
- Magpie Goose
- Magpie-lark
- Mallard
- Malleefowl
- Maned Duck
- Mangrove Fantail
- Mangrove Gerygone
- Mangrove Golden Whistler
- Mangrove Robin
- Manx Shearwater
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Masked Booby
- Masked Finch
- Masked Lapwing
- Masked Woodswallow
- Matsudaira’s Storm Petrel
- Medium Egret
- Mistletoebird
- Mulga Parrot
- Muscovy Duck
- Musk Duck
- Mute Swan
- Nankeen Kestrel
- Nankeen Night Heron
- Narcissus Flycatcher
- Naretha Bluebonnet
- Nazca Booby
- New Holland Honeyeater
- Nicobar Pigeon
- Night Parrot
- Noisy Scrubbird
- Nordmann’s Greenshank
- Northern Boobook
- Northern Fantail
- Northern Giant Petrel
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Rockhopper Penguin
- Northern Rosella
- Northern Royal Albatross
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Shriketit
- Nullarbor Quail-thrush
- Olive-backed Oriole
- Orange Chat
- Orange-footed Scrubfowl
- Oriental Cuckoo
- Oriental Dollarbird
- Oriental Plover
- Oriental Pratincole
- Oriental Reed Warbler
- Osprey
- Pacific Baza
- Pacific Black Duck
- Pacific Emerald Dove
- Pacific Golden Plover
- Pacific Gull
- Pacific Koel
- Pacific Reef Heron
- Pacific Swift
- Painted Buttonquail
- Painted Finch
- Pale-headed Munia
- Pale-vented Bush-hen
- Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler
- Pallid Cuckoo
- Paperbark Flycatcher
- Papuan Eclectus
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Partridge Pigeon
- Peaceful Dove
- Pechora Pipit
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Pheasant Coucal
- Pictorella Mannikin
- Pied Butcherbird
- Pied Heron
- Pied Honeyeater
- Pied Oystercatcher
- Pied Stilt
- Pilbara Grasswren
- Pin-tailed Snipe
- Pink Cockatoo
- Pink-eared Duck
- Pintado Petrel
- Plumed Egret
- Plumed Whistling Duck
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Princess Parrot
- Purple Heron
- Purple-backed Fairywren
- Purple-crowned Fairywren
- Purple-gaped Honeyeater
- Radjah Shelduck
- Rainbow Bee-eater
- Rainbow Lorikeet
- Rainbow Pitta
- Red Goshawk
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Red Phalarope
- Red Siskin
- Red Wattlebird
- Red-backed Buttonquail
- Red-backed Fairywren
- Red-backed Kingfisher
- Red-browed Finch
- Red-browed Pardalote
- Red-capped Parrot
- Red-capped Plover
- Red-capped Robin
- Red-chested Buttonquail
- Red-collared Lorikeet
- Red-eared Firetail
- Red-footed Booby
- Red-headed Myzomela
- Red-kneed Dotterel
- Red-legged Crake
- Red-necked Avocet
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-necked Stint
- Red-rumped Parrot
- Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
- Red-tailed Tropicbird
- Red-throated Pipit
- Red-winged Fairywren
- Red-winged Parrot
- Redthroat
- Regent Parrot
- Restless Flycatcher
- Rock Dove
- Rock Parrot
- Rose-crowned Fruit Dove
- Rose-ringed Parakeet
- Roseate Tern
- Rosy Starling
- Royal Spoonbill
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Ruff
- Rufous Fieldwren
- Rufous Owl
- Rufous Songlark
- Rufous Treecreeper
- Rufous Whistler
- Rufous-crowned Emu-wren
- Rufous-throated Honeyeater
- Sabine’s Gull
- Sacred Kingfisher
- Sahul Brush Cuckoo
- Sahul Cicadabird
- Salvin’s Albatross
- Sanderling
- Sandhill Grasswren
- Sandstone Shrikethrush
- Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
- Scarlet Robin
- Scarlet-chested Parrot
- Semipalmated Plover
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
- Shining Bronze Cuckoo
- Shining Flycatcher
- Short-tailed Shearwater
- Shy Albatross
- Shy Heathwren
- Siberian Sand Plover
- Silver Gull
- Silver-backed Butcherbird
- Silver-crowned Friarbird
- Silvereye
- Singing Bush Lark
- Singing Honeyeater
- Slaty-backed Thornbill
- Slender-billed Prion
- Slender-billed Thornbill
- Snowy Albatross
- Soft-plumaged Petrel
- Sooty Albatross
- Sooty Oystercatcher
- Sooty Shearwater
- Sooty Tern
- South Polar Skua
- Southern Emu-wren
- Southern Fulmar
- Southern Giant Petrel
- Southern Royal Albatross
- Southern Scrub Robin
- Southern Whiteface
- Spangled Drongo
- Spinifex Pigeon
- Spinifexbird
- Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
- Splendid Fairywren
- Spotless Crake
- Spotted Dove
- Spotted Harrier
- Spotted Nightjar
- Spotted Pardalote
- Spotted Redshank
- Spotted Scrubwren
- Square-tailed Kite
- Star Finch
- Straw-necked Ibis
- Streaked Shearwater
- Striated Pardalote
- Stubble Quail
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- Sunda Zebra Finch
- Superb Parrot
- Swamp Harrier
- Swan Goose
- Swinhoe’s Snipe
- Swinhoe’s Storm Petrel
- Tahiti Petrel
- Tawny Frogmouth
- Tawny Grassbird
- Tawny-crowned Honeyeater
- Temminck’s Stint
- Terek Sandpiper
- Tibetan Sand Plover
- Tiger Shrike
- Torresian Crow
- Torresian Imperial Pigeon
- Torresian Kingfisher
- Tree Martin
- Trindade Petrel
- Varied Lorikeet
- Varied Sittella
- Varied Triller
- Wandering Whistling Duck
- Watercock
- Wedge-tailed Eagle
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- Weebill
- Welcome Swallow
- Western Bowerbird
- Western Bristlebird
- Western Corella
- Western Fieldwren
- Western Gerygone
- Western Grasswren
- Western Quail-thrush
- Western Rosella
- Western Shriketit
- Western Spinebill
- Western Thornbill
- Western Wattlebird
- Western Whipbird
- Western Yellow Robin
- Whiskered Tern
- Whistling Kite
- White Wagtail
- White-backed Swallow
- White-bellied Cuckooshrike
- White-bellied Sea Eagle
- White-breasted Robin
- White-breasted Whistler
- White-breasted Woodswallow
- White-browed Babbler
- White-browed Crake
- White-browed Treecreeper
- White-browed Woodswallow
- White-cheeked Honeyeater
- White-chinned Petrel
- White-eared Honeyeater
- White-faced Heron
- White-faced Storm Petrel
- White-fronted Chat
- White-fronted Honeyeater
- White-gaped Honeyeater
- White-headed Petrel
- White-necked Heron
- White-plumed Honeyeater
- White-quilled Rock Pigeon
- White-tailed Tropicbird
- White-throated Gerygone
- White-throated Honeyeater
- White-throated Needletail
- White-winged Fairywren
- White-winged Tern
- White-winged Triller
- Willie Wagtail
- Wilson’s Storm Petrel
- Wood Sandpiper
- Yellow Bittern
- Yellow Chat
- Yellow-billed Spoonbill
- Yellow-plumed Honeyeater
- Yellow-rumped Mannikin
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill
- Yellow-throated Miner
- Yellow-tinted Honeyeater
- Zitting Cisticola
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Birds of Western Australia by bird group
- Honeyeaters of Western Australia (38 species)
- Petrels & Shearwaters of Western Australia (38 species)
- Parrots, Cockatoos & Allies of Western Australia (37 species)
- Sandpipers & Allies of Western Australia (37 species)
- Gulls, Terns & Skimmers of Western Australia (28 species)
- Ducks, Geese & Swans of Western Australia (27 species)
- Herons, Egrets & Bitterns of Western Australia (21 species)
- Plovers of Western Australia (20 species)
- Hawks, Eagles & Kites of Western Australia (19 species)
- Pigeons & Doves of Western Australia (18 species)
Species lists and counts come from the eBird network; "recorded" means reported by birders to eBird. Tap any bird for its full profile, photos, sounds and ID notes.
Frequently asked questions
How many bird species are in Western Australia?
606 species have been recorded in Western Australia on eBird; 604 of them have a full profile on Birbs.
Where can I see birds in Western Australia right now?
Use the Birds Near You tool to see species reported near you in the last few days, or browse the full checklist on this page.