List of endemic birds of Australia

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Endemism in birds
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Patterns of endemism

Family-level endemism is prominent in Australia. The

Neotropics
, and many of these families are endemic to Australia itself — the country therefore stakes a strong claim to be the world's greatest hotspot of bird endemism.

Australian endemic and near-endemic families

The Australian endemic families are:

  • monotypic
    family; the emu is found in rural areas throughout the continent
  • Plains-wanderer (Pedionomidae), a monotypic family; plains-wanderer is restricted to arid inland areas in the southeast of Australia
  • Lyrebirds (Menuridae), two forest-dwelling species of southeast Australia
  • Scrub-birds
    (Atrichornithidae), two forest-dwelling species, one found in southeastern Australia, the other in southwest Australia
  • Australian mudnesters (Struthideidae), two species found in open forest and woodland environments in eastern Australia
  • Bristlebirds (Dasyornithidae), three species: eastern, western and rufous bristlebirds.
  • Pardalotes (Pardalotidae), four species: spotted, forty-spotted, red-browed and striated pardalote

In addition to the families listed above, the following families are endemic to the Australasian region, with some of their species also found in New Guinea:

A further group of families endemic to the Australasian region, but where the species are predominantly New Guinea endemics are listed in the article on endemic birds of New Guinea.

Endemic Bird Areas

BirdLife International has defined the following Endemic Bird Areas (EBAs) in Australia:

181 Cape York
182
Queensland wet tropics
183
Eastern Australia
184 South-east Australia
185 Tasmania
186 Southwest Australia
187 North West Australia

Christmas Island, an Australian territory, is also an EBA.

In addition the following are classified as

secondary areas
(areas with at least one restricted-range bird species, but not meeting the criteria to qualify as EBAs):

To be completed later.

List of species

The following is a list of bird species endemic to Australia:

Species endemic to coastal eastern Australia

Species endemic to the Cape York peninsula

Species endemic to the Queensland wet tropics

Species endemic to eastern Australia

Species found in more than one of the above areas, but not elsewhere

Species endemic to south-eastern Australia

Many, but some include;

Species endemic to Tasmania

Species endemic to south-west Australia

Species endemic to north-west Australia

The

Aru Islands
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Other endemics

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