Papua New Guinea - Potential Bird List
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1 = should be seen
2 = possible and to be expected
3 = possible but scarce
4 = just possible, very rare or secretive
E = endemic to Papua New Guinea
nE = near endemic
| NAME | LATIN NAME | ||||
| 1 2 2 1 4 1 3 4 3 3 2 1 4 4 3 2 2 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 3 4 1 4 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 2 3 1 1 4 2 3 3 1 4 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 4 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 |
Great Frigatebird Lesser Frigatebird Brown Booby Pacific Reef Egret New Britain Buzzard E Black Kite Slaty-backed Goshawk E New Britain Grey-headed Goshawk E New Britain Sparrowhawk E Meyer's Goshawk Spotted Whistling Duck Melanesian Scrubfowl King Quail Red-backed Button-Quail New Britain Rail E Lesser Sandplover Greater Sandplover Turnstone Whimbrel Eastern Curlew Grey-tailed Tattler Wandering Tattler Greenshank Terek Sandpiper Swinhoe's Snipe Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Red-necked Stint Ruff Common Tern Black-naped Tern Sooty Tern Bridled Tern Brown Noddy Brown Cuckoo-Dove Mackinlay's Cuckoo-Dove Pied Cuckoo-Dove E White-throated Pigeon Yellow-legged Pigeon E Stephan's Ground-Dove New Britain Bronzewing E Nicobar Pigeon White-bibbed Ground-Dove Knob-billed Fruit-Dove E White-bibbed Fruit-Dove Yellow-bibbed Fruit-Dove Finsch's Imperial Pigeon E Black Imperial Pigeon E Island (Grey) Imperial Pigeon nE Red-knobbed Imperial Pigeon E Yellow-tinted Imperial Pigeon E Eastern Black-capped Lory Blue-eyed Cockatoo E Buff-faced Pygmy-Parrot Meek's Pygmy-Parrot E Song Parrot nE Green-fronted (Bismarck) Hanging Parrot E Violaceous (Violet) Coucal E Pied Coucal E New Britain (Golden) Barn Owl E Manus Boobook E Bismarck Boobook E New Britain Boobook E White-rumped Swiftlet Whitehead's Swiftlet E Moustached Tree-Swift Bismarck Kingfisher E New Britain (White-Mantled) Kingfisher E Sacred Kingfisher Beach Kingfisher Black-headed Paradise-Kingfisher E Papuan (Blyth's) Hornbill Superb Pitta E Yellow-eyed Cuckoo-shrike Common Cicadabird Rufous-faced Thicket-Warbler E Manus Rufous Fantail E Island Monarch Black-tailed Monarch E Admiralty Pied Monarch E Dull (Lesser Shining) Flycatcher E Bismarck Flycatcher E Golden Whistler Red-banded (Bismarck) Flowerpecker E Black-headed White-eye E Ashy Myzomela E Bismarck Black Myzomela E New Britain Red-headed Myzomela E Scarlet-Bibbed (Sclater's) Myzomela E New Britain Friarbird E Manus Friarbird E Buff-bellied Mannikin E Long-tailed Myna E Spangled Drongo Bismarck (White-Backed) Woodswallow E Island (Bismarck) Crow E |
Fregata minor Fregata ariel Sula leucogaster Egretta sacra Henicopernis infuscatus Milvus migrans Accipiter luteoschistaceus Accipiter princeps Accipiter brachyurus Accipiter meyerianus Dendrocygna guttata Megapodius eremita Coturnix chinensis Turnix maculosa Gallirallus insignis Charadrius mongolus Charadrius leschenaultii Arenaria interpres Numenius phaeopus Numenius madagascarensis Tringa brevipes Tringa incana Tringa nebularia Tringa terek Gallinago megala Calidris acuminata Calidris ruficollis Philomachus pugnax Sterna hirundo Sterna sumatrana Sterna fuscata Sterna anaethetus Anous stolidus Macropygia amboinensis Macropygia mackinlayi Reinwardtoena browni Columba vitiensis Columba pallidiceps Chalcophaps stephani Henicophaps foersteri Caloenas nicobarica Gallicolumba jobiensis Ptilinopus insolitus Ptilinopus rivoli Ptilinopus solomonensis Ducula finschii Ducula melanochroa Ducula pistrinaria Ducula rubricera Ducula subflavescens Lorius hypoinochrous Cacatua ophthalmica Micropsitta pusio Micropsitta meeki Geoffroyus heteroclitus Loriculus tener Centropus violaceus Centropus ateralbus Tyto aurantia Ninox meeki Ninox variegata Ninox odiosa Collocalia spodiopygia Collocalia whiteheadi Hemiprocne mystacea Alcedo websteri Halcyon albonotata Halcyon sancta Halcyon saurophaga Tanysiptera nigriceps Aceros plicatus Pitta superba Coracina lineata Coracina tenuirostris Megalurulus rubiginosa Rhipidura semirubra Monarcha cinerascens Monarcha verticalis Monarcha infelix Myiagra hebetior Microeca sp. novo Pachycephala pectoralis Dicaeum eximium Zosterops hypoxantha Myzomela cineracea Myzomela pammelaena Myzomela erythromelas Myzomela sclateri Philemon cockerelli Philemon albitorques Lonchura melaena Mino kreffti Dicrurus hottentottus Artamus insignis Corvus insularis |
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