Flightless and Ground Birds Found In Australia
List of Australian Flightless and Ground Birds
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List of Flightless Birds of Australia
FLIGHTLESS BIRDS PHOTOS AND DATA
Cassowary
Emu [E]
Penguins
Adelie Penguin [V]
Chinstrap Penguin [V]
Emperor Penguin [V]
Erect-crested Penguin [V]
Fiordland Penguin [V]
King Penguin [V]
Little [Fairy] Penguin
Macaroni Penguin [V]
Rockhopper Penguin [V]
Royal Penguin [V]
Ground Dwelling Birds of Australia
Ground dwellers can generally fly very short distances when necessary to escape predators so are not specifically 'flightless' birds. Most hatch their eggs in dug-outs and use built up mounds to incubate the eggs.
List of Ground Dwelling Birds of Australia
Wild Fowl
Australian brush-turkey [E]
Australian Bustard
Helmeted Guinea Fowl
Indian Peafowl
Malleefowl [E]
Orange-footed Scrubfowl
Lord Howe Woodhen
Lyrebirds
Albert's Lyrebird [E]
Superb Lyrebird [E]
Bowerbirds
Fawn-breasted Bowerbird
Golden Bowerbird [E]
Great Bowerbird [E]
Regent Bowerbird [E]
Satin bowerbird [E]
Spotted Bowerbird [E]
Tooth-billed Bowerbird
Western Bowerbird [E]
Bristlebirds
Eastern Bristlebird
Rufous Bristlebird
Western Bristlebird
Scrubbirds
Noisy Scrubbird
Rufous Scrubbird
Australian logrunner
Stacpoole Music and Internet Mount Barker WA
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Indentifying Australian Birds
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Data Abbreviations Legend
Origin
E - Endemic
R - Resident
M - Migratory
V - Vagrant
Size; in length
L:230-400mm
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A - All Australia
CY - Cape York
QT - Queensland Wet Tropics
CC - Central Channel Country
EA - Eastern Australia
SE - South Eastern Australia
T - Tasmania
CD - Central/Southern Deserts
SW - South of Western Australia
NW - North West Australia