Bird Species Found In Tasmania, King Island and Flinders Island
Birds native to / found on Tasmania:
Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus), also known as the Brown Bittern - Range: South-western and south-eastern Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia and Ouvea.
Australian Magpie (C. tibicen hypoleuca) - Range: King and Flinders Islands, as well as Tasmania.
Australian Pipits (A. n. bistriatus) - Range: Tasmania
Australian Shelducks (Tadorna tadornoides) - Range: Breeds in southern Australia and Tasmania. In the southern winter, many birds move further north than the breeding range. Favor moulting grounds, such as Lake George, NSW, Australia
Banded Lapwings (Vanellus tricolor)- Range: Found over most of Australia and Tasmania though absent from the northern third of the continent
Bassian Thrush (Zoothura lunulata) aka Olive-tailed Thrush - Range: Southeastern Australia and Tasmania.
Black Currawong (Strepera fuliginosa) aka Black Jay - Range: Native to Australia. Confined to Tasmania and two islands in Bass Strait.
Black-faced Cormorants (Phalacrocorax fuscescens) aka Black-faced Shags: Range: Found along southern coast of Australia, Western Australia, around the coast of Tasmania and the islands of Bass Strait
Black-shouldered Kites (Elanus axillaris) - Range: Open habitat throughout Australia. Common throughout Southern Africa. Accidental visitors to northern Tasmania and the Torres Strait islands
Black Swans (Cygnus atratus) - Range: Southeast and southwest of Australia; along the east coast of Australia, Tasmania. Recently reintroduced in New Zealand
Blue Mountain / Swainsons Lories (Trichoglossus haematodus moluccanus) - Range: Eastern & South Australia,Tasmania
Blue-winged Grass Parakeets or Blue-winged Parrots (Neophema chrysostoma) aka Blue-banded Parakeet or Blue-banded Grass-parakeet - Range: Tasmania, where they breed in spring and summer; winter in southeast Australia
Brown Goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus) - Range: Australia, Tasmania, Wallacea, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji
Brown Thornbills (Acanthiza pusilla) - Range: Eastern and south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania
Brown Quail aka Swamp Quail (Coturnix ypsilophora) - Range: New Guinea, Lesser Sunda Islands, Australia, including Tasmania. Introduced to Fiji and New Zealand
California Quails (Callipepla californica) - aka California Valley Quailsor Valley Quails - Range: California, USA. Introduced into British Columbia, Hawaii, Chile, New Zealand, and to Norfolk Island and King Island in Australia.
Eastern Reef Egrets (Egretta sacra) - Range: Asia including the oceanic region of India, Southeast Asia, Japan, Polynesia, and in Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand
Eastern Spinebills (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris) - Range: South-eastern Australia and Tasmania.
Forest Ravens (Corvus tasmanicus) - Range: Island state of Tasmania as well as other parts of south-eastern Australia
Forty-spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus quadragintus) - Range: Confined to the south-east corner of Tasmania
Gang-gang Cockatoos (Callocephalon fimbriatum) - Range: Extreme southeast coast of Australia; self-introduced into Northern Tasmania
Greater Sulfur Crested Cockatoos (Cacatua galerita galerita aka Psittacus galeritus) - Range: South-eastern Australia, Tasmania
Green Rosellas (Platycercus caledonicus) - Range: Tasmania and the larger islands in Bass Strait.
Greater Sooty Owls (Tyto tenebricosa) - Range: South-eastern Australia, Montane rainforests of New Guinea; have been observed on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait.
Grey Currawong (Strepera versicolor) - Range: Southern Australia and Tasmania
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Ground Parrot (Pezoporus wallicus wallicus wallicus) also known as the Eastern Ground Parrot, Swamp Parrot or Button-grass Parrot - Range: Southeastern and southwestern Australia and Tasmania. Some Islands on Brass Str.
Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) - previously known as the Laughing Jackass - Range: Eastern Australia; introduced into the south-west corner of Western Australia, Tasmania, Flinders Island and Kangaroo Island.
Little Lories (Glossopsitta pusilla) - Range: Eastern & south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania.
Little Penguins (Eudyptula minor) aka Fairy Penguins - Range: Coastline of New Zealand, the Chatham Islands, Tasmania, and southern Australia.
Masked Lapwings (Vanellus miles) previously known as the Masked Plover or Plover - Range: Australia (particularly the northern and eastern parts). Can also be found in NW Tasmania
Musk Lorikeets (Glossopsitta concinna) - Range: Southeast Australia, Kangaroo Islands, Tasmania
Noisy Miners (Manorina melanocephala) - Range: From northern Queensland along the eastern coast to South Australia and Tasmania
Orange-bellied Grass Parakeets (Neophema chrysogaster) - Range: Breeds in Tasmania and winters in coastal south-eastern South Australia and southern Victoria.
Ospreys (Sub-species: P. h. cristatus - Vieillot, 1816) - Range: Australia and Tasmania.
Rainbow Bee-eaters (Merops ornatus) - Range: South Australia and Tasmania. Winter in northern Australia, New Guinea, and some of the southern islands of Indonesia
Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus) - Eastern seaboard of Australia, from Queensland to South Australia. Also found around northwest Tasmania.
Red-kneed Dotterels (Erythrogonys cinctus) - Range: Southern New Guinea and mainland Australia; vagrant to Tasmania and New Zealand
Red-necked Stints (Calidris or Erolia ruficollis) - Range: Breends in the tundra in arctic north east Siberia. Winters in south east Asia and Australasia as far south as Tasmania. A rare vagrant to western Europe. Common in western Alaska.
Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) - Range: Western Alaska, Ellesmere Island, Greenland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and northern Russia. Formerly bred on the Baltic coast of Germany and possibly in Scotland and the Faroe Islands. In the Americas, winters on coastlines from Washington State and Massachusetts southwards to the southern tip of South America. In Europe, winters in western regions from Iceland, Norway and Denmark southwards. In Africa, common all the way down to South Africa. In Asia, widespread in the south with birds wintering as far north as southern China and Japan. Occurs south to Tasmania and New Zealand
Southern Boobook (Ninox novaeseelandiae) aka Mopoke, Morepork, Boobook, Tasmanian Spotted Owl, Lord Howe Boobook or Ruru - Range: New Zealand, Australia, Timor, southern New Guinea and nearby islands.
Spotted Doves / Spotted Turtle Doves (Streptopelia chinensis): Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to south China and Southeast Asia. Introduced to the U.S. - California area. Also introduced to northern Indonesia, Australia (including Tasmania) and New Zealand
Strong-billed Honeyeaters - Range: Tasmania
Sulphur-crested Cockatoos (Cacatua galerita: eleanora, fitzroyi, galerita, triton) - Range: New Guinea; Eastern and northern coastal Australia; Tasmania
Superb Fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus) or Blue Wren - Range: South-east of South Australia, through all of Victoria, Tasmania, coastal and sub-coastal New South Wales and Queensland, as far north as the Brisbane area
Superb Lyrebird or Weringerong (Menura novaehollandiae) - Range: Victoria and New South Wales. Introduced into Tasmania in the 19th Century.
Swift Parrots (Lathamus discolor) - Range: South-eastern Australia, Tasmania, some islands in Brass Strait
Tasmanian Thornbills (Acanthiza ewingii)
Tasmanian Magpies (G. tibicen hypoleuca) - Range: King and Flinders Islands, as well as Tasmania
Tasmanian Scrubwrens (Sericornis humilis)
Tasmanian Forest Raven (Corvus tasmanicus)
Tasmanian Rosellas (Platycercus eximius diemenensis) - Range: Tasmania
Tasmanian Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus funereus xanthanotus) - Range: Tasmania, South-eastern Australia
Topknot Pigeons (Lopholaimus antarcticus) - Range: Australia, Tasmania and the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria
Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagles (Aquila audax fleayi) - Range: Found throughout Australia, including Tasmania, and southern New Guinea
Willie Wagtails (Rhipidura leucophrys) - Range: Australia and northern Tasmania, and extends to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago and eastern Indonesia
Yellow-tipped Pardalote (Striatus) - Range: Found mainly in Tasmania but crossing the 200 miles of Bass Strait to the mainland each winter in a migration
Yellow Wattlebirds (A. paradoxa) : Range: Tasmania
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