Birds of Australia covers all 714 species of resident birds and regularly occurring migrants. The text relies on the very latest IOC taxonomy and the distribution maps incorporate the most current mapping data, making this the most up-to-date guide to Australian birds.

Table of Contents

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE AND RAINFALL
• HABITATS OF AUSTRALIA
• About the Habitats
• Marine and Coastal Habitats
• Tropical Habitats
• Temperate Habitats
• Arid and Semi-arid Habitats
• Man-made Habitats
• SPECIES ACCOUNTS
• Cassowary; Emu
• Megapodes
• Quail
• Grebes
• Ducks, Geese, and Swans
• Gannet; Tropicbirds
• Pigeons and Doves
• Frogmouths
• Owlet-night jar; Night jars
• Swifts
• Storm Petrels
• Albatrosses
• Petrels and Shearwaters
• Penguins
• Frigatebirds
• Boobies
• Darter; Cormorants
• Pelican; Stork; Cranes
• Herons and Bitterns
• Ibises and Spoonbills
• Osprey; Kites, Hawks, and Eagles
• Falcons
• Rails, Crakes, and Coots
• Bustard; Stone-curlews
• Stilts and Avocets; Oystercatchers
• Plovers
• Jacana
• Painted-snipe
• Sandpipers and Snipes
• Buttonquail
• Pratincoles
• Plains-wanderer
• Skuas
• Gulls and Terns
• Cockatos
• Parrots
• Cuckoos
• Owls
• Barn Owls
• Kingfishers
• Dollarbird; Bee-eater
• Pittas
• Lyrebirds
• Australasian Treecreepers
• Bowerbirds
• Australasian Wrens
• Scrubbirds; Bristlebirds
• Australasian Warblers
• Pardalotes
• Honeyeaters
• Australasian Babblers
• Logrunners
• Quail-thrushes and Whipbirds
• Cuckooshrikes
• Sittella
• Whistlers and Allies
• Figbird and Orioles
• Woodswallows
• Butcherbirds and Currawongs
• Fantails
• Crows
• Monarchs
• Australian Mudnesters
• Birds-of-paradise
• Drongo
• Australasian Robins
• Grassbirds; Pipit and Wagtail
• Cisticolas; Reed Warbler
• White-eyes; Mistletoebird; Sunbird
• Swallows and Martins
• Thrushes
• Estrildid Finches
• Old World Sparrows; Finches
• Starlings; Bulbul
• ABBREVIATIONS
• GLOSSARY
• PHOTO CREDITS