eBird Field Checklist
Great Barrier Reef--Michaelmas Cay
Cairns, Queensland, AU
ebird.org/hotspot/L949007
98 species (+8 other taxa) - Year-round, All years
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Waterfowl
Pacific Black Duck
Pigeons and Doves
Rock Pigeon
Spotted Dove
Pacific Emerald Dove
Peaceful Dove
Superb Fruit-Dove
Torresian Imperial-Pigeon
imperial-pigeon sp.
Topknot Pigeon
Swifts
White-throated Needletail
Rails, Gallinules, and Allies
Buff-banded Rail
Cranes
Brolga
Shorebirds
Bush Thick-knee
Pied Oystercatcher
Black-bellied Plover
Pacific Golden-Plover
Black-fronted Dotterel
Masked Lapwing
Red-capped Plover
Whimbrel
Far Eastern Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit
Black-tailed Godwit
Gray-tailed Tattler
Wandering Tattler
Ruddy Turnstone
Great Knot
Red Knot
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Red-necked Stint
Sanderling
Skuas and Jaegers
Parasitic Jaeger
Pomarine Jaeger
Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
Silver Gull
gull sp.
Brown Noddy
Black Noddy
Brown/Black Noddy
Sooty Tern
Bridled Tern
Little Tern
Australian Tern
Caspian Tern
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Tern
Common Tern
Black-naped Tern
Roseate Tern
Sterna sp.
Lesser Crested Tern
Great Crested Tern
tern sp.
Tropicbirds
White-tailed Tropicbird
Red-tailed Tropicbird
Storm-Petrels
Wilson's Storm-Petrel
Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving-Petrels
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Short-tailed Shearwater
shearwater sp.
Storks
Black-necked Stork
Frigatebirds, Boobies, and Gannets
Lesser Frigatebird
Great Frigatebird
frigatebird sp.
Red-footed Booby
Brown Booby
Masked Booby
Cormorants and Anhingas
Australasian Darter
Little Pied Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Little Black Cormorant
Pied Cormorant
Pelicans
Australian Pelican
Herons, Ibis, and Allies
Pacific Reef-Heron
Little Egret
White-faced Heron
Striated Heron
Great Egret
Plumed Egret
Australian Ibis
Vultures, Hawks, and Allies
Osprey
Black-shouldered Kite
Brahminy Kite
White-bellied Sea-Eagle
Kingfishers
Sacred Kingfisher
Falcons and Caracaras
Australian Hobby
Peregrine Falcon
Cockatoos
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Parrots, Parakeets, and Allies
Rainbow Lorikeet
Honeyeaters
Yellow Honeyeater
Varied Honeyeater
Brown Honeyeater
Helmeted Friarbird
Whipbirds and Wedgebills
Eastern Whipbird
Old World Orioles
Australasian Figbird
Woodswallows
White-breasted Woodswallow
woodswallow sp.
Bellmagpies and Allies
Black Butcherbird
Fantails
Willie-wagtail
Drongos
Spangled Drongo
Monarch Flycatchers
Magpie-lark
Martins and Swallows
Welcome Swallow
White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies
Silvereye
Starlings and Mynas
Metallic Starling
Common Myna
Flowerpeckers
Mistletoebird
Sunbirds and Spiderhunters
Sahul Sunbird