List of endemic birds of Australia


This article is one of a series providing information about endemism among birds in the world's various zoogeographic zones. For an overview of this subject see Endemism in birds.

Patterns of endemism

Family-level endemism is prominent in Australia. The Australasian biogeographic region has the highest number of endemic families of any zoogeographic region except 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:
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

has defined the following Endemic Bird Areas in Australia:
Christmas Island, an Australian territory, is also an EBA.
In addition the following are classified as secondary areas :
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

Many, but some include;
The chestnut rail is near-endemic to this region of Australia, elsewhere only being found on the Aru Islands.

Other endemics