Checklist for New Zealand

eBird Field Checklist

New Zealand

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388 species (+122 other taxa) - Year-round, All years

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Ostriches

Common Ostrich

Cassowaries and Emu

Emu

Kiwis

Southern Brown Kiwi

Okarito Brown Kiwi

North Island Brown Kiwi

Little Spotted Kiwi

Great Spotted Kiwi

Waterfowl

Plumed Whistling-Duck

Graylag Goose

Swan Goose

Graylag x Swan Goose (hybrid)

Domestic goose sp. (Domestic type)

Canada Goose

Swan Goose x Canada Goose (hybrid)

Graylag x Canada Goose (hybrid)

Cape Barren Goose

Mute Swan

Graylag Goose x Mute Swan (hybrid)

Black Swan

goose sp.

Australian Shelduck

Paradise Shelduck

Muscovy Duck

Wood Duck

Mandarin Duck

Maned Duck

Blue Duck

Australasian Shoveler

Northern Shoveler

Pacific Black Duck

Mallard

Muscovy Duck x Mallard (hybrid)

Mallard x Pacific Black Duck (hybrid)

Mallard/Pacific Black Duck

Northern Pintail

Gray Teal

Chestnut Teal

Gray x Chestnut Teal (hybrid)

Gray/Chestnut Teal

Auckland Islands Teal

Campbell Islands Teal

Brown Teal

Mallard x Brown Teal (hybrid)

Anas sp.

dabbling duck sp.

Pink-eared Duck

Hardhead

New Zealand Scaup

duck sp.

waterfowl sp.

Grouse, Quail, and Allies

Helmeted Guineafowl

California Quail

Wild Turkey

Golden Pheasant

Lady Amherst's Pheasant

Golden x Lady Amherst's Pheasant (hybrid)

Ring-necked Pheasant

Ring-necked/Green Pheasant

Swinhoe's Pheasant

Silver Pheasant

Indian Peafowl

pheasant sp.

Red Junglefowl

Brown Quail

Red-legged Partridge

Chukar

Grebes

Australasian Grebe

Hoary-headed Grebe

New Zealand Grebe

Great Crested Grebe

grebe sp.

Pigeons and Doves

Rock Pigeon

Columba sp.

African Collared-Dove

Streptopelia sp.

Spotted Dove

Crested Pigeon

New Zealand Pigeon

Chatham Island Pigeon

pigeon/dove sp.

Cuckoos

Long-tailed Koel

Channel-billed Cuckoo

Shining Bronze-Cuckoo

Pallid Cuckoo

Fan-tailed Cuckoo

Oriental Cuckoo

Swifts

White-throated Needletail

Pacific Swift

fork-tailed swift sp.

Rails, Gallinules, and Allies

large rail sp.

Auckland Islands Rail

Weka

Buff-banded Rail

Black-tailed Nativehen

Dusky Moorhen

Eurasian Coot

South Island Takahe

Australasian Swamphen

swamphen sp.

Baillon's Crake

Spotted/Little/Baillon's Crake

Spotless Crake

rail/crake sp.

Shorebirds

Pied Stilt

Black-winged x Pied Stilt (hybrid)

Black Stilt

Pied x Black Stilt (hybrid)

Pied/Black Stilt

Red-necked Avocet

stilt/avocet sp.

Pied Oystercatcher

South Island Oystercatcher

Chatham Oystercatcher

Variable Oystercatcher

South Island x Variable Oystercatcher (hybrid)

oystercatcher sp.

Black-bellied Plover

American Golden-Plover

Pacific Golden-Plover

Black-bellied Plover/golden-plover sp.

Common Ringed Plover

Semipalmated Plover

Black-fronted Dotterel

Shore Plover

Masked Lapwing

lapwing sp.

Red-kneed Dotterel

Oriental Plover

Siberian Sand-Plover

Greater Sand-Plover

sand-plover sp.

Double-banded Plover

Wrybill

Red-breasted Dotterel

Red-capped Plover

small plover sp.

plover sp.

Australian Painted-Snipe

Bristle-thighed Curlew

Whimbrel

Little Curlew

Far Eastern Curlew

curlew sp.

Bar-tailed Godwit

Black-tailed Godwit

Hudsonian Godwit

godwit sp.

Asian Dowitcher

South Island Snipe

Chatham Islands Snipe

Snares Island Snipe

Subantarctic Snipe

Latham's Snipe

Wilson's Phalarope

Red Phalarope

Red-necked Phalarope

phalarope sp.

Terek Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper

Gray-tailed Tattler

Wandering Tattler

Gray-tailed/Wandering Tattler

Marsh Sandpiper

Lesser Yellowlegs

Common Greenshank

Tringa sp.

Ruddy Turnstone

Great Knot

Red Knot

Ruff

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

Curlew Sandpiper

Stilt Sandpiper

Long-toed Stint

Red-necked Stint

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Sanderling

Dunlin

Baird's Sandpiper

Little Stint

Red-necked/Little Stint

White-rumped Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper

Curlew x Pectoral Sandpiper (hybrid)

Sharp-tailed/Pectoral Sandpiper

Western Sandpiper

peep sp.

Calidris sp.

large shorebird sp.

Oriental Pratincole

shorebird sp.

Skuas and Jaegers

Long-tailed Jaeger

Parasitic Jaeger

Long-tailed/Parasitic Jaeger

Pomarine Jaeger

Long-tailed/Pomarine Jaeger

Parasitic/Pomarine Jaeger

Brown Skua

South Polar Skua

jaeger sp.

skua sp.

jaeger/skua sp.

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

Silver Gull

Black-billed Gull

Silver/Black-billed Gull

Laughing Gull

Franklin's Gull

Kelp Gull

Larus sp.

gull sp.

White Tern

Brown Noddy

Black Noddy

Gray Noddy

Sooty Tern

Bridled Tern

Sooty/Bridled Tern

Little Tern

Australian Fairy Tern

Little/Australian Fairy Tern

Little/Least Tern

Sternula sp.

Gull-billed Tern

Australian Tern

Gull-billed/Australian Tern

Caspian Tern

Whiskered Tern

Black-fronted Tern

Black Tern

White-winged Tern

Chlidonias sp.

Arctic Tern

Antarctic Tern

Arctic/Antarctic Tern

Common Tern

Black-naped Tern

White-fronted Tern

Sterna sp.

Great Crested Tern

tern sp.

gull/tern sp.

Tropicbirds

White-tailed Tropicbird

Red-tailed Tropicbird

tropicbird sp.

Penguins

King Penguin

Emperor Penguin

Adelie Penguin

Gentoo Penguin

Chinstrap Penguin

Yellow-eyed Penguin

Little Penguin

Fiordland Penguin

Erect-crested Penguin

Macaroni Penguin

Royal Penguin

Southern Rockhopper Penguin

Moseley's Rockhopper Penguin

Snares Penguin

penguin sp.

Albatrosses

Northern Royal Albatross

Southern Royal Albatross

Northern/Southern Royal Albatross

Snowy Albatross

Antipodean Albatross

Snowy/Tristan/Antipodean Albatross

large albatross sp.

Laysan Albatross

Sooty Albatross

Light-mantled Albatross

Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross

Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross

Atlantic/Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross

Gray-headed Albatross

Buller's Albatross

White-capped Albatross

Salvin's Albatross

Chatham Albatross

White-capped/Salvin's/Chatham Albatross

Black-browed Albatross

small albatross sp.

albatross sp.

Storm-Petrels

Wilson's Storm-Petrel

Gray-backed Storm-Petrel

White-faced Storm-Petrel

White-bellied Storm-Petrel

New Zealand Storm-Petrel

Black-bellied Storm-Petrel

Leach's Storm-Petrel

storm-petrel sp. (white-rumped)

storm-petrel sp.

Petrels, Shearwaters, and Diving-Petrels

Southern Giant-Petrel

Northern Giant-Petrel

Southern/Northern Giant-Petrel

Northern Fulmar

Southern Fulmar

Antarctic Petrel

Cape Petrel

Kerguelen Petrel

Gray-faced Petrel

Great-winged/Gray-faced Petrel

Kermadec Petrel

Magenta Petrel

Herald Petrel

Providence Petrel

Soft-plumaged Petrel

White-headed Petrel

Mottled Petrel

Juan Fernandez Petrel

White-necked Petrel

Black-winged Petrel

Chatham Petrel

Cook's Petrel

Gould's Petrel

Collared Petrel

Stejneger's Petrel

Pycroft's Petrel

Cookilaria petrel sp.

Phoenix Petrel

Pterodroma sp.

Blue Petrel

Fairy Prion

Broad-billed Prion

Salvin's Prion

Antarctic Prion

Slender-billed Prion

Fulmar Prion

prion sp.

Tahiti Petrel

Gray Petrel

White-chinned Petrel

Parkinson's Petrel

Westland Petrel

Procellaria sp.

Streaked Shearwater

Pink-footed Shearwater

Flesh-footed Shearwater

Great Shearwater

Wedge-tailed Shearwater

Buller's Shearwater

Sooty Shearwater

Short-tailed Shearwater

Sooty/Short-tailed Shearwater

Christmas Shearwater

Hutton's Shearwater

Fluttering Shearwater

Hutton's/Fluttering Shearwater

Little Shearwater

Subantarctic Shearwater

Little/Subantarctic Shearwater

black-and-white shearwater sp.

shearwater sp.

Common Diving-Petrel

South Georgia Diving-Petrel

diving-petrel sp.

procellariid sp.

Frigatebirds, Boobies, and Gannets

Lesser Frigatebird

Great Frigatebird

frigatebird sp.

Cape Gannet

Australasian Gannet

Red-footed Booby

Brown Booby

Masked Booby

Cormorants and Anhingas

Australasian Darter

Little Pied Cormorant

Great Cormorant

Spotted Shag

Pitt Island Shag

Little Black Cormorant

Pied Cormorant

Bounty Islands Shag

New Zealand King Shag

Stewart Island Shag

Chatham Islands Shag

Auckland Islands Shag

Campbell Islands Shag

cormorant sp.

Pelicans

Australian Pelican

Herons, Ibis, and Allies

Australasian Bittern

Black-backed Bittern

Nankeen Night Heron

Pacific Reef-Heron

Little Egret

White-faced Heron

Eastern Cattle Egret

Pacific Heron

Great Egret

Plumed Egret

Ardea sp.

heron sp.

white egret sp.

Glossy Ibis

Australian Ibis

Straw-necked Ibis

Royal Spoonbill

Yellow-billed Spoonbill

Vultures, Hawks, and Allies

Wedge-tailed Eagle

Swamp Harrier

harrier sp.

Black Kite

hawk sp.

Owls

Barn Owl

Little Owl

Morepork

Laughing Owl

owl sp.

Kingfishers

Laughing Kookaburra

Sacred Kingfisher

Bee-eaters, Rollers, and Allies

Dollarbird

Falcons and Caracaras

Nankeen Kestrel

New Zealand Falcon

small falcon sp.

falcon sp.

New Zealand Parrots

Kea

New Zealand Kaka

Kakapo

Cockatoos

Cockatiel

Galah

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Parrots, Parakeets, and Allies

Australian King-Parrot

Rose-ringed Parakeet

Psittacula sp.

Antipodes Parakeet

Red-crowned Parakeet

Reischek's Parakeet

Yellow-crowned Parakeet

Red-crowned x Yellow-crowned Parakeet (hybrid)

Chatham Islands Parakeet

Red-crowned x Chatham Islands Parakeet (hybrid)

Malherbe's Parakeet

Cyanoramphus sp.

Crimson Rosella

Eastern Rosella

Eastern x Pale-headed Rosella (hybrid)

Budgerigar

Scaly-breasted Lorikeet

Rainbow Lorikeet

Red-collared Lorikeet

Rosy-faced Lovebird

Fischer's Lovebird

Yellow-collared Lovebird

parakeet sp.

parrot sp.

New Zealand Wrens

Rifleman

Bush Wren

South Island Wren

Honeyeaters

Tui

New Zealand Bellbird

Tui/New Zealand Bellbird

Thornbills and Allies

Gray Gerygone

Chatham Island Gerygone

gerygone sp.

Cuckooshrikes

Black-faced Cuckooshrike

White-winged Triller

Whiteheads

Whitehead

Yellowhead

Pipipi

Woodswallows

Masked Woodswallow

White-browed Woodswallow

Dusky Woodswallow

Bellmagpies and Allies

Australian Magpie

Fantails

Willie-wagtail

New Zealand Fantail

Monarch Flycatchers

Magpie-lark

Satin Flycatcher

Jays, Magpies, Crows, and Ravens

Rook

crow sp.

Wattlebirds

North Island Kokako

South Island Kokako

North Island Saddleback

South Island Saddleback

Huia

Stitchbird

Australasian Robins

Tomtit

Chatham Robin

North Island Robin

South Island Robin

Larks

Eurasian Skylark

Eurasian/Oriental Skylark

Reed Warblers and Allies

Australian Reed Warbler

Grassbirds and Allies

New Zealand Fernbird

Martins and Swallows

Welcome Swallow

Fairy Martin

Tree Martin

swallow sp.

Bulbuls

Red-vented Bulbul

White-eyes, Yuhinas, and Allies

Silvereye

Starlings and Mynas

European Starling

Common Myna

Thrushes

Song Thrush

Eurasian Blackbird

Turdus sp.

thrush sp.

Estrildids

Zebra Finch

Accentors

Dunnock

Old World Sparrows

House Sparrow

Wagtails and Pipits

New Zealand Pipit

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

Common Chaffinch

European Greenfinch

Common Redpoll

Lesser Redpoll

European Goldfinch

finch sp.

Old World Buntings

Cirl Bunting

Yellowhammer

Emberiza sp.

Others

passerine sp.

bird sp.