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Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island
This checklist includes all bird species found in Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island , based on the best information available at this time. It is based on a wide variety of sources that I collated over many years. I am pleased to offer these checklists as a service to birdwatchers. If you find any error, please do not hesitate to .
The taxonomic order and nomenclature follows Clements, version 2024. If you prefer to view the list based on a different authority, click on one of the list available below. Globally threatened species (status in red) were identified by Birdlife International in Birdlife Data Zone (species).
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Country or region: Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island [map]
Other names: Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Number of globally threatened species: 12
Number of introduced species: 1
Date last reviewed: 2012-12-31
Last modified: 2024-12-25
See also: http://www.deh.gov.au/coasts/mpa/ashmore/plan/index.html
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| Magpie Goose | Anseranas semipalmata | |
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| Hardhead | Aythya australis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Peaceful Dove | Geopelia placida | |
| Nicobar Pigeon | Caloenas nicobarica | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus regina | |
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| Lesser Coucal | Centropus bengalensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Pacific Koel | Eudynamys orientalis | |
| Channel-billed Cuckoo | Scythrops novaehollandiae | |
| Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo | Chalcites basalis | |
| Black-eared Cuckoo | Chalcites osculans | |
| Shining Bronze-Cuckoo | Chalcites lucidus | |
| Little Bronze-Cuckoo | Chalcites minutillus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pallid Cuckoo | Heteroscenes pallidus | |
| Sahul Brush Cuckoo | Cacomantis variolosus | |
| Oriental Cuckoo | Cuculus optatus | |
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| Gray Nightjar | Caprimulgus jotaka | Rare/Accidental |
| Large-tailed Nightjar | Caprimulgus macrurus | |
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| White-throated Needletail | Hirundapus caudacutus | |
| Uniform Swiftlet | Aerodramus vanikorensis | Rare/Accidental |
| White-nest Swiftlet | Aerodramus fuciphagus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pacific Swift | Apus pacificus | |
| House Swift | Apus nipalensis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Buff-banded Rail | Gallirallus philippensis | |
| Watercock | Gallicrex cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
| White-breasted Waterhen | Amaurornis phoenicurus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pale-vented Bush-hen | Amaurornis moluccana | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-legged Crake | Rallina fasciata | Rare/Accidental |
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| Beach Thick-knee | Esacus magnirostris | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Pied Stilt | Himantopus leucocephalus | |
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| Pied Oystercatcher | Haematopus longirostris | |
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| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Vulnerable |
| Pacific Golden-Plover | Pluvialis fulva | |
| Masked Lapwing | Vanellus miles | |
| Oriental Plover | Anarhynchus veredus | |
| Siberian Sand-Plover | Anarhynchus mongolus | Endangered |
| Tibetan Sand-Plover | Anarhynchus atrifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Sand-Plover | Anarhynchus leschenaultii | |
| Red-capped Plover | Anarhynchus ruficapillus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Little Curlew | Numenius minutus | |
| Far Eastern Curlew | Numenius madagascariensis | Endangered |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Near-threatened |
| Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | Near-threatened |
| Asian Dowitcher | Limnodromus semipalmatus | Near-threatened |
| Swinhoe's Snipe | Gallinago megala | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | |
| Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
| Gray-tailed Tattler | Tringa brevipes | |
| Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
| Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Near-threatened |
| Great Knot | Calidris tenuirostris | Endangered |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Near-threatened |
| Broad-billed Sandpiper | Calidris falcinellus | Vulnerable |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | Vulnerable |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Vulnerable |
| Long-toed Stint | Calidris subminuta | |
| Red-necked Stint | Calidris ruficollis | Near-threatened |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-backed Buttonquail | Turnix maculosus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Australian Pratincole | Glareola isabella | |
| Oriental Pratincole | Glareola maldivarum | |
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| Long-tailed Jaeger | Stercorarius longicaudus | Rare/Accidental |
| Parasitic Jaeger | Stercorarius parasiticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| White Tern | Gygis alba | |
| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | |
| Lesser Noddy | Anous tenuirostris | |
| Black Noddy | Anous minutus | |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | |
| Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
| Australian Tern | Gelochelidon macrotarsa | |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | Rare/Accidental |
| Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | Rare/Accidental |
| White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | |
| Lesser Crested Tern | Thalasseus bengalensis | |
| Great Crested Tern | Thalasseus bergii | |
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| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | |
| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon rubricauda | |
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| Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | |
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| Leach's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates monorhis | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates matsudairae | Vulnerable |
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| Trindade Petrel | Pterodroma arminjoniana | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Bulwer's Petrel | Bulweria bulwerii | Rare/Accidental |
| Jouanin's Petrel | Bulweria fallax | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Tahiti Petrel | Pseudobulweria rostrata | Near-threatened |
| Streaked Shearwater | Calonectris leucomelas | Near-threatened |
| Wedge-tailed Shearwater | Ardenna pacifica | |
| Hutton's Shearwater | Puffinus huttoni | Endangered |
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| Lesser Frigatebird | Fregata ariel | |
| Great Frigatebird | Fregata minor | |
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| Abbott's Booby | Papasula abbotti | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | |
| Nazca Booby | Sula granti | Rare/Accidental |
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| Little Pied Cormorant | Microcarbo melanoleucos | |
| Little Black Cormorant | Phalacrocorax sulcirostris | |
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| Australian Pelican | Pelecanus conspicillatus | |
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| Black Bittern | Botaurus flavicollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Nankeen Night Heron | Nycticorax caledonicus | |
| Pacific Reef-Heron | Egretta sacra | |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
| White-faced Heron | Egretta novaehollandiae | |
| Striated Heron | Butorides striata | |
| Eastern Cattle-Egret | Ardea coromanda | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
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| Letter-winged Kite | Elanus scriptus | Endemic (country/region) Near-threatened |
| Japanese Sparrowhawk | Tachyspiza gularis | Rare/Accidental |
| Chinese Sparrowhawk | Tachyspiza soloensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Goshawk | Tachyspiza fasciata | |
| Swamp Harrier | Circus approximans | |
| Spotted Harrier | Circus assimilis | |
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| Eastern Barn Owl | Tyto javanica | |
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| Brown Boobook | Ninox scutulata | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Boobook | Ninox japonica | Rare/Accidental |
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| Rainbow Bee-eater | Merops ornatus | |
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| Red-backed Kingfisher | Todiramphus pyrrhopygius | Endemic (country/region) |
| Forest Kingfisher | Todiramphus macleayii | |
| Sacred Kingfisher | Todiramphus sanctus | |
| Collared Kingfisher | Todiramphus chloris | Rare/Accidental |
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| Dollarbird | Eurystomus orientalis | |
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| Nankeen Kestrel | Falco cenchroides | |
| Australian Hobby | Falco longipennis | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Rufous-throated Honeyeater | Conopophila rufogularis | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow Chat | Epthianura crocea | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-faced Cuckooshrike | Coracina novaehollandiae | |
| White-winged Triller | Lalage tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Sahul Cicadabird | Edolisoma tenuirostre | |
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| Supertramp Fantail | Rhipidura semicollaris | Rare/Accidental |
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| Island Monarch | Monarcha cinerascens | Rare/Accidental |
| Australian Spectacled Monarch | Symposiachrus trivirgatus | |
| Magpie-lark | Grallina cyanoleuca | |
| Broad-billed Flycatcher | Myiagra ruficollis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Tiger Shrike | Lanius tigrinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Shrike | Lanius cristatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Torresian Crow | Corvus orru | |
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| Oriental Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus orientalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Australian Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus australis | |
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| Gray's Grasshopper Warbler | Helopsaltes fasciolatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler | Helopsaltes certhiola | Rare/Accidental |
| Middendorff's Grasshopper Warbler | Helopsaltes ochotensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Songlark | Cincloramphus cruralis | Rare/Accidental |
| Tawny Grassbird | Cincloramphus timoriensis | |
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| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Eastern Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | Rare/Accidental |
| Fairy Martin | Petrochelidon ariel | |
| Tree Martin | Petrochelidon nigricans | |
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| Yellow-browed Warbler | Phylloscopus inornatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Crowned Warbler | Phylloscopus coronatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Arctic Warbler | Phylloscopus borealis | Rare/Accidental |
| Kamchatka Leaf Warbler | Phylloscopus examinandus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Ashy-bellied White-eye | Zosterops citrinella | Rare/Accidental |
| Australian Yellow White-eye | Zosterops luteus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Rosy Starling | Pastor roseus | Rare/Accidental |
| Chestnut-cheeked Starling | Agropsar philippensis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Gray-streaked Flycatcher | Muscicapa griseisticta | Rare/Accidental |
| Dark-sided Flycatcher | Muscicapa sibirica | Rare/Accidental |
| Asian Brown Flycatcher | Muscicapa dauurica | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-and-white Flycatcher | Cyanoptila cyanomelana | Rare/Accidental |
| Siberian Blue Robin | Larvivora cyane | Rare/Accidental |
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| Scaly-breasted Munia | Lonchura punctulata | |
| Pale-headed Munia | Lonchura pallida | Rare/Accidental |
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| Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus | Introduced species |
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| Gray Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla tschutschensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Pechora Pipit | Anthus gustavi | Rare/Accidental |
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