Birds of Ashmore Reef

The Birds of Ashmore Reef comprise three main groups:

  1. Seabirds, including at least five species of breeding terns, with several other seabirds, including petrels, recorded in the surrounding waters
  2. Migratory shorebirds en route from northern Asia to Australia
  3. Landbirds, only three breeding species (two herons and a rail) but several others, including passerines, visit, either on migration to northern Australia or as vagrants

Contents

List of birds

Procellariidae

Phaethontidae

Sulidae

Fregatidae

Ardeidae

Rallidae

Turnicidae

Scolopacidae

Charadriidae

Laridae

Cuculidae

Centropodidae

Caprimulgidae

Apodidae

Halcyonidae

Meropidae

Coraciidae

Dicruridae

Motacillidae

Passeridae

Hirundinidae

Sylviidae

Muscicapidae

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Birding-Aus Mailing List Archives.

Sources