List of birds of Kangaroo Island, South Australia

The following is a list of the birds recorded on Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

Emus

 * Emu (introduced)
 * Kangaroo Island emu (extinct)

Megapodes

 * Australian brush-turkey (introduced)

Gamebirds

 * Stubble quail
 * Brown quail
 * Indian peafowl (introduced)
 * Common pheasant (introduced)
 * Wild turkey (introduced)

Wildfowl

 * Blue-billed duck
 * Musk duck
 * Freckled duck
 * Black swan
 * Cape Barren goose
 * Australian shelduck
 * Australian wood duck
 * Pacific black duck
 * Australian shoveler
 * Grey teal
 * Chestnut teal
 * Garganey (vagrant)
 * Pink-eared duck
 * Hardhead
 * Mallard (introduced)

Grebes

 * Australasian grebe
 * Hoary-headed grebe
 * Great crested grebe

Penguins

 * Little penguin
 * Fiordland penguin

Diving-petrels

 * Common diving-petrel

Petrels and shearwaters

 * Southern giant petrel
 * Northern giant petrel
 * Southern fulmar
 * Cape petrel
 * Kerguelen petrel
 * Great-winged petrel
 * White-headed petrel
 * Blue petrel
 * Broad-billed prion
 * Salvin's prion
 * Antarctic prion
 * Slender-billed prion
 * Fairy prion
 * White-chinned petrel
 * Mottled petrel
 * Grey petrel
 * Flesh-footed shearwater
 * Short-tailed shearwater (migrates here to breed)
 * Fluttering shearwater
 * Hutton's shearwater
 * Sooty shearwater
 * Little shearwater

Albatrosses

 * Wandering albatross
 * Royal albatross
 * Black-browed albatross
 * Shy albatross
 * Grey-headed albatross
 * Yellow-nosed albatross
 * Sooty albatross
 * Light-mantled sooty albatross

Storm-petrels

 * Wilson's storm-petrel
 * White-faced storm-petrel
 * Grey-backed storm-petrel
 * Black-bellied storm-petrel

Tropicbirds

 * Red-tailed tropicbird

Gannets

 * Australasian gannet

Darters

 * Darter

Cormorants

 * Little pied cormorant
 * Black-faced cormorant
 * Pied cormorant
 * Little black cormorant
 * Great cormorant

Pelicans

 * Australasian pelican

Herons and allies

 * White-faced heron
 * Little egret
 * Eastern reef egret
 * White-necked heron
 * Great egret
 * Cattle egret
 * Nankeen night heron
 * Australasian bittern
 * Intermediate egret

Ibises and spoonbills

 * Glossy ibis
 * Australian white ibis
 * Straw-necked ibis
 * Royal spoonbill
 * Yellow-billed spoonbill

Hawks and allies

 * Black-shouldered kite
 * Letter-winged kite
 * Square-tailed kite
 * Black kite
 * Whistling kite
 * White-bellied sea-eagle
 * Spotted harrier
 * Swamp harrier
 * Brown goshawk
 * Collared sparrowhawk
 * Wedge-tailed eagle
 * Little eagle

Osprey

 * Osprey

Falcons

 * Brown falcon
 * Australian hobby
 * Black falcon
 * Peregrine falcon
 * Nankeen kestrel

Cranes

 * Brolga

Rails

 * Buff-banded rail
 * Lewin's rail
 * Baillon's crake
 * Australian spotted crake
 * Spotless crake
 * Purple swamp-hen
 * Dusky moorhen
 * Black-tailed native-hen
 * Common coot

Buttonquail

 * Painted buttonquail

Sandpipers and allies

 * Latham's snipe
 * Black-tailed godwit
 * Bar-tailed godwit
 * Eurasian whimbrel
 * Eastern curlew
 * Marsh sandpiper
 * Common greenshank
 * Wood sandpiper
 * Terek sandpiper
 * Common sandpiper
 * Grey-tailed tattler
 * Ruddy turnstone
 * Red knot
 * Sanderling
 * Red-necked stint
 * Long-toed stint
 * Pectoral sandpiper
 * Sharp-tailed sandpiper
 * Curlew sandpiper
 * Great knot

Painted-snipe

 * Australian painted snipe

Stone-curlews

 * Bush stone-curlew

Oystercatchers

 * Pied oystercatcher
 * Sooty oystercatcher

Avocets and stilts

 * Black-winged stilt
 * Banded stilt
 * Red-necked avocet

Plovers

 * Pacific golden plover
 * Grey plover
 * Red-capped plover
 * Double-banded plover
 * Lesser sand plover
 * Greater sand plover
 * Black-fronted dotterel
 * Hooded plover
 * Red-kneed dotterel
 * Banded lapwing
 * Masked lapwing

Skuas

 * Antarctic skua
 * Arctic skua
 * Pomarine skua
 * South polar skua

Gulls

 * Pacific gull
 * Kelp gull
 * Silver gull

Terns

 * Australian tern
 * Caspian tern
 * Crested tern
 * White-fronted tern
 * Common tern
 * Antarctic tern
 * Fairy tern
 * Sooty tern
 * Whiskered tern
 * Arctic tern
 * Little tern
 * White-winged tern

Pigeons and doves

 * Rock dove (introduced)
 * Spotted dove (introduced)
 * Common bronzewing
 * Brush bronzewing
 * Crested pigeon (introduced)
 * Peaceful dove

Cockatoos

 * Glossy black cockatoo
 * Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
 * Gang-gang cockatoo(introduced)
 * Galah
 * Little corella
 * Sulphur-crested cockatoo
 * Cockatiel
 * Long-billed corella

Parrots

 * Rainbow lorikeet
 * Purple-crowned lorikeet
 * musk lorikeet
 * Crimson rosella
 * Eastern rosella
 * Budgerigar
 * Elegant parrot
 * Rock parrot
 * Red-rumped parrot
 * Eastern bluebonnet
 * Mulga parrot
 * Blue-winged parrot

Cuckoos

 * Pallid cuckoo
 * Fan-tailed cuckoo
 * Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo
 * Shining bronze-cuckoo
 * Black-eared cuckoo

Barn owls

 * Barn owl

Owls

 * Australian boobook

Frogmouths

 * Tawny frogmouth

Nightjars

 * Spotted nightjar

Owlet-nightjars

 * Australian owlet-nightjar

Swifts

 * White-throated needletail
 * Pacific swift

Kingfishers

 * Laughing kookaburra (introduced)
 * Sacred kingfisher

Bee-eaters

 * Rainbow bee-eater

Rollers

 * Dollarbird

Treecreepers

 * White-throated treecreeper
 * Brown treecreeper

Flowerpeckers

 * Mistletoebird

Australo-Papuan wrens

 * Variegated fairy-wren
 * Superb fairy-wren
 * Southern emu-wren

Pardalotes

 * Spotted pardalote
 * Striated pardalote

Thornbills and allies

 * White-browed scrubwren
 * Shy heathwren
 * Brown thornbill
 * Yellow thornbill
 * Striated thornbill
 * Yellow-rumped thornbill
 * Inland thornbill
 * White-throated gerygone
 * Chestnut-rumped heathwren
 * Southern whiteface

Honeyeaters

 * Red wattlebird (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
 * Little wattlebird
 * Regent honeyeater
 * Singing honeyeater
 * White-eared honeyeater
 * Purple-gaped honeyeater (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
 * White-plumed honeyeater
 * Brown-headed honeyeater
 * White-naped honeyeater
 * Crescent honeyeater (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
 * New Holland honeyeater (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
 * White-fronted honeyeater
 * Tawny-crowned honeyeater
 * Eastern spinebill
 * Pied honeyeater
 * Yellow-plumed honeyeater
 * Yellow-faced honeyeater
 * White-fronted honeyeater
 * Noisy miner
 * Yellow-throated miner
 * Spiny-cheeked honeyeater
 * Black honeyeater

Australian chats

 * Crimson chat
 * White-fronted chat

Australian robins

 * Scarlet robin
 * Flame robin
 * Rose robin
 * Jacky-winter

Whipbirds

 * Western whipbird (Kangaroo Island sub-species)

Whistlers

 * Golden whistler
 * Rufous whistler
 * Grey shrike-thrush

Monarch flycatchers

 * Satin flycatcher
 * Restless flycatcher

Mudnest-builders

 * Magpie-lark

Fantails

 * Grey fantail
 * Willie wagtail

Drongos

 * Spangled drongo (vagrant)

Cuckooshrikes

 * Black-faced cuckooshrike
 * White-winged triller

Sittellas

 * Varied sittella

Woodswallows

 * Masked woodswallow
 * White-browed woodswallow
 * Black-faced woodswallow
 * Dusky woodswallow

Bellmagpies and allies

 * Australian magpie
 * Grey currawong (Kangaroo Island sub-species)
 * Grey butcherbird

Crows

 * Australian raven
 * Little raven

Larks

 * Singing bushlark
 * Skylark

Pipits and wagtails

 * Australian pipit

Old World sparrows

 * House sparrow (introduced)

Waxbills and allies

 * Red-browed finch
 * Beautiful firetail
 * Zebra finch

Finches

 * Goldfinch (introduced)

Swallows and martins

 * Welcome swallow
 * Tree martin
 * Fairy martin
 * White-backed swallow

Old World warblers

 * Australian reed warbler
 * Little grassbird
 * Brown songlark
 * Rufous songlark

White-eyes

 * Silvereye (a subspecies)

Thrushes

 * Bassian thrush (a subspecies)
 * Blackbird (introduced)

Starlings

 * European starling (introduced)