Australian Birds not yet on the Great Backyard Bird Count

G’day Last time I checked, the Australian list was missing a lot of species – pelagics, wet tropics, Cape York Peninsula, Top End, Kimblerley, South West Aus, Mallee, Lake Eyre basin species as well as the island territories. I have put together a list of apparent omissions (not doubt a bit out of date by the time I post it) – If you see (or saw on Friday or Saturday) these birds on Sunday and Monday, you might like to submit them to the GBBC http://ebird.org/ebird/gbbc/submit Cassowary Spotted Whistling Duck Cotton pygmy goose Burdekin Shelduck Hardhead (how can this be missing?) Malleefowl LOTS OF PELAGIC SPECIES – e.g. PRIONS, STORM PETRELS, Little Penguin Little, Black and Aus Bitterns Letter-winged Kite Red Goshawk Black-breasted Buzzard Oriental Buzzard Little Eagle Red-necked Crake Pale-vented Bush-hen White-browed Crake Sarus Crane Beach Thick-knee Australian Bustard SIPO The ringed plovers? Painted Snipe Wandering Tattler White-rumped sandpiper Wood Sandpiper Sanderling Long-billed dowitcher Pin-tailed Snipe Swinhoe’s Snipe Ruff Aus Pratincole the phalaropes ? Black-headed Gull (was one of these reported recently?) Lesser Crested Tern Roseate Tern Black-naped Tern White-fronted Tern Arctic Tern Bridled Tern The Noddies White Tern Grey Ternlet Chestnut-quilled Rock-pigeon White-quilled Rock-pigeon Squatter Pigeon Partridge Pigeon Banded Fruit-dove Superb Fruit-dove Pallid Cuckoo Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo Black-eared Cuckoo Rufous Owl Powerful Owl Sooty & Lesser Sooty Owl Grass Owl Masked Owl Barn Owl Marbled Frogmouth Papuan Frogmouth White-throated Nightjar Large-tailed Nightjar Spotted Nightjar Fork-tailed Swift other vagrant swift/lets Little Kingfisher Red-backed Kingfisher Yellow-billed Kingfisher Black Falcon Grey Falcon Palm Cockatoo Baudin’s Cockatoo Major Mitchell Western Corella Regent Parrot Princess Parrot Cockatiel Red-capped Parrot Western Rosella Northern Rosella (other recently split rosellas?) Blue Bonnet Golden-shouldered Parrot Hooded Parrot Blue-winged Parrot Rock Parrot Elegant Parrot Orange-bellied Parrot Bourke’s Parrot Turquoise Parrot Scarlet-chested Parrot Ground Parrots Night Parrot Budgerigar Varied Lorikeet Swift Parrot Eclectus Parrot Red-cheeked Parrot Red-winged Parrot Red-bellied Pitta Rainbow Pitta Spotted Catbird Tooth-billed Catbird Golden Bowerbird Fawn-breasted Bowerbird Western Bowerbird Spotted Bowerbird White-browed Treecreeper Rufous Treecreeper Black-tailed Treecreeper Lovely Fairywren Blue-breasted Fairywren Red-winged Fairywren Purple-crowned Fairywren THE BUTTON-QUAIL THE EMU WRENS THE GRASS WRENS THE BRISTLEBIRDS THE SCRUBBIRDS Western Spinebill Yellow-spotted Honeyeater Graceful Honeyeater White-lined Honeyeater Kimberley Honeyeater Eungella Honeyeater Bridled Honeyeater Varied Honeyeater Yellow-tufted Honeyeater Purple-gaped Honeyeater Grey-headed Honeyeater Grey-fronted Honeyeater Yellow-plumed Fuscous Honeyeater Tawny-crowned Honeyeater Bar-breasted Honeyeater Macleays Honeyeater Tawny-breasted Honeyeater Rufous-banded Honeyeater Grey Honeyeater Green-backed Honeyeater Banded Honeyeater Black Honeyeater Pied Honeyeater Painted Honeyeater Red-headed Honeyeater Crimson Chat Orange Chat Yellow Chat Gibberbird Black-chinned Honeyeater Black-eared Miner Silver-crowned Friarbird Regent Honeyeater Forty-spotted Pardalote Red-browed Pardalote Rock Warbler Scrubtit Tasmanian Scrubwren Fernwren Atherton Scrubwren Tropical Scrubwren Redthroat Chestnut-rumped Heathwren Shy Heathwren Rufous Fieldwren Mountain Thornbill Inland Thornbill Slaty-backed Thornbill Western Thornbill Slender-billed Thornbill Chestnut-rumped Thornbill Large-billed Geregone Green-backed Geregone Fairy Geregone Chestnut-brested Whiteface Banded Whiteface Hall’s Babbler Chestnut-crowned Babbler Western Whipbird Chiming Wedgebill Chirruping Wedgebill Chowchilla Chestnut-backed Quail-Thrush Nullarbor Quail-Thrush Cinnamon Quail-Thrush Chestnut-breasted Quail-Thrush other recently split Quail-Thrush White-browed Woodswallow Masked Woodswallow Little Woodswallow Black-backed Butcherbird Ground Cuckoo-shrike Recently split Chrike-tits? Crested Bellbird Bowers Shrike-thrush Sandstone Shrike-thrush Mangrove Golden Whistler Grey Whistler Red-lored Whistler Gilbert’s Whistler Arafura Fantail Mangrove Grey Fantail Northern Fantail Black-winged Monarch White-eared Monarch Frill-Necked Monarch Pied Monarch House Crow Magnificent Riflebird Victoria’s Riflebird Trumpet Manucode Yellow-legged Flycatcher Lemon-bellied Flycatcher Yellow-breasted Boatbill Red-capped Robin Rose Robin Pink Robin Western Yellow Robin Pale-Yellow Robin White-faced Robin Hooded Robin White-breasted Robin Mangrove Robin Buff-sided Robin Grey-headed Robin Southern Scrub-robin Northern Scrub-robin Red-rumped Swallow White-backed Swallow Oriental Reed-warbler Spinifexbird Horsfield’s (singing) Bushlark Zitting Cistacola Russet-tailed Thrush Bassian Thrush Yellow wagtail Grey Wagtail other vagrant wagtails Masked Finch Black-throated Finch Star Finch Red-eared Firetail Painted Finch Yellow-rumped Mannikin Pictarella Mannikin Nutmeg Mannikin Gouldian Finch Blue-faced Parrot-finch Plum-headed Finch CHRISTMAS ISLAND ENDEMICS & VAGRANTS COCOS ISLAND ENDEMICS & VAGRANTS LORD HOWE ISLAND ENDEMICS & VAGRANTS NORFOLK ISLAND ENDEMICS & VAGRANTS Regards, Laurie