I’ve been through the eBird records for Brisbane City Council area, and I reckon about 253 species are possible in my Biggish Year. I’ve compiled the list below, and to make it more exciting I’ve emulated the USA code system, where Code 5 are the rarest, and Code 1 the commonest. From the total of 378 species recorded in eBird for Brisbane so far, I have classified them as follows:
Code 1: 166 species
Code 2: 65 species
Code 3: 40 species
Code 4: 37 species
Code 5: 70 species
This is a work in progress – comments to r.fuller@uq.edu.au welcome! And of course, if you find any Code 5 rarities and tell me about it, I would be delighted!
| Common Name | Chance | Code |
| Magpie Goose | 100% | 1 |
| Plumed Whistling-Duck | 90% | 2 |
| Wandering Whistling-Duck | 100% | 1 |
| Freckled Duck | 20% | 5 |
| Black Swan | 100% | 1 |
| Radjah Shelduck | 5% | 5 |
| Cotton Pygmy-Goose | 80% | 5 |
| Australian Wood Duck | 100% | 1 |
| Australian Shoveler | 40% | 5 |
| Pacific Black Duck | 100% | 1 |
| Grey Teal | 100% | 1 |
| Chestnut Teal | 100% | 1 |
| Pink-eared Duck | 85% | 3 |
| Hardhead | 100% | 1 |
| Musk Duck | 5% | 5 |
| Australian Brushturkey | 100% | 1 |
| Brown Quail | 100% | 1 |
| King Quail | 1% | 5 |
| Stubble Quail | 1% | 5 |
| Australasian Grebe | 100% | 1 |
| Hoary-headed Grebe | 20% | 5 |
| Great Crested Grebe | 95% | 4 |
| Yellow-nosed Albatross | 10% | 3 |
| Black-browed Albatross | 1% | 3 |
| Southern Giant-Petrel | 1% | 3 |
| Cape Petrel | 1% | 3 |
| Kermadec Petrel | 1% | 3 |
| Providence Petrel | 1% | 3 |
| White-necked Petrel | 1% | 3 |
| Gould’s Petrel | 5% | 3 |
| Fairy Prion | 1% | 3 |
| Antarctic Prion | 1% | 3 |
| Slender-billed Prion | 1% | 3 |
| Tahiti Petrel | 1% | 3 |
| Streaked Shearwater | 1% | 3 |
| Flesh-footed Shearwater | 1% | 3 |
| Wedge-tailed Shearwater | 10% | 3 |
| Buller’s Shearwater | 1% | 3 |
| Short-tailed Shearwater | 10% | 3 |
| Hutton’s Shearwater | 1% | 3 |
| Fluttering Shearwater | 10% | 3 |
| Wilson’s Storm-Petrel | 5% | 3 |
| White-faced Storm-Petrel | 1% | 3 |
| White-bellied Storm-Petrel | 1% | 3 |
| Black-bellied Storm-Petrel | 1% | 3 |
| Black-necked Stork | 90% | 5 |
| Lesser Frigatebird | 5% | 3 |
| Great Frigatebird | 1% | 3 |
| Masked Booby | 1% | 3 |
| Brown Booby | 20% | 3 |
| Red-footed Booby | 1% | 3 |
| Australasian Gannet | 100% | 3 |
| Little Pied Cormorant | 100% | 1 |
| Great Cormorant | 95% | 2 |
| Little Black Cormorant | 100% | 1 |
| Pied Cormorant | 100% | 1 |
| Australasian Darter | 100% | 1 |
| Australian Pelican | 100% | 1 |
| Australian Little Bittern | 90% | 4 |
| Black Bittern | 50% | 4 |
| White-necked Heron | 75% | 5 |
| Great Egret | 100% | 1 |
| Intermediate Egret | 100% | 1 |
| White-faced Heron | 100% | 1 |
| Little Egret | 100% | 1 |
| Eastern Reef Egret | 75% | 2 |
| Cattle Egret | 100% | 1 |
| Striated Heron | 100% | 1 |
| Nankeen Night-Heron | 90% | 2 |
| Glossy Ibis | 90% | 5 |
| Australian White Ibis | 100% | 1 |
| Straw-necked Ibis | 100% | 1 |
| Royal Spoonbill | 100% | 1 |
| Yellow-billed Spoonbill | 60% | 5 |
| Osprey | 100% | 1 |
| Black-shouldered Kite | 90% | 2 |
| Black-breasted Buzzard | 1% | 5 |
| Square-tailed Kite | 60% | 3 |
| Pacific Baza | 90% | 4 |
| Little Eagle | 20% | 3 |
| Wedge-tailed Eagle | 40% | 3 |
| Swamp Harrier | 30% | 4 |
| Spotted Harrier | 15% | 4 |
| Grey Goshawk | 50% | 3 |
| Brown Goshawk | 100% | 1 |
| Collared Sparrowhawk | 100% | 2 |
| Black Kite | 70% | 4 |
| Whistling Kite | 100% | 1 |
| Brahminy Kite | 100% | 1 |
| White-bellied Sea-Eagle | 100% | 1 |
| Buff-banded Rail | 100% | 1 |
| Lewin’s Rail | 95% | 2 |
| Pale-vented Bush-hen | 100% | 2 |
| Australian Spotted Crake | 5% | 5 |
| Baillon’s Crake | 95% | 4 |
| Spotless Crake | 95% | 4 |
| Australasian Swamphen | 100% | 1 |
| Dusky Moorhen | 100% | 1 |
| Black-tailed Native-hen | 1% | 5 |
| Eurasian Coot | 100% | 1 |
| Brolga | 20% | 5 |
| Bush Stone-curlew | 100% | 1 |
| Beach Stone-curlew | 100% | 2 |
| Black-winged Stilt | 100% | 1 |
| Red-necked Avocet | 100% | 2 |
| Australian Pied Oystercatcher | 100% | 1 |
| South Island Pied Oystercatcher | 5% | 5 |
| Sooty Oystercatcher | 90% | 2 |
| Grey Plover | 75% | 4 |
| Pacific Golden-Plover | 100% | 1 |
| Banded Lapwing | 5% | 5 |
| Masked Lapwing | 100% | 1 |
| Lesser Sand-Plover | 100% | 1 |
| Greater Sand-Plover | 80% | 2 |
| Double-banded Plover | 80% | 2 |
| Red-capped Plover | 100% | 1 |
| Red-kneed Dotterel | 100% | 1 |
| Black-fronted Dotterel | 100% | 1 |
| Australian Painted-Snipe | 10% | 5 |
| Comb-crested Jacana | 100% | 1 |
| Whimbrel | 100% | 1 |
| Little Curlew | 5% | 5 |
| Eastern Curlew | 100% | 1 |
| Bar-tailed Godwit | 100% | 1 |
| Black-tailed Godwit | 100% | 1 |
| Ruddy Turnstone | 80% | 2 |
| Great Knot | 100% | 1 |
| Red Knot | 80% | 2 |
| Ruff | 20% | 5 |
| Broad-billed Sandpiper | 40% | 4 |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper | 100% | 1 |
| Curlew Sandpiper | 100% | 1 |
| Long-toed Stint | 5% | 5 |
| Red-necked Stint | 100% | 1 |
| Sanderling | 50% | 4 |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | 50% | 4 |
| Asian Dowitcher | 80% | 4 |
| Latham’s Snipe | 100% | 1 |
| Terek Sandpiper | 80% | 2 |
| Common Sandpiper | 75% | 4 |
| Grey-tailed Tattler | 100% | 1 |
| Wandering Tattler | 80% | 2 |
| Common Greenshank | 100% | 1 |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | 1% | 5 |
| Marsh Sandpiper | 100% | 1 |
| Wood Sandpiper | 75% | 4 |
| Red-backed Buttonquail | 10% | 4 |
| Black-breasted Buttonquail | 20% | 4 |
| Painted Buttonquail | 40% | 4 |
| Red-chested Buttonquail | 1% | 5 |
| Australian Pratincole | 1% | 5 |
| Pomarine Jaeger | 10% | 3 |
| Arctic Jaeger | 10% | 3 |
| Long-tailed Jaeger | 2% | 3 |
| Silver Gull | 100% | 1 |
| Franklin’s Gull | 1% | 5 |
| Pacific Gull | 1% | 5 |
| Kelp Gull | 1% | 5 |
| Common Noddy | 10% | 3 |
| Black Noddy | 3% | 3 |
| Sooty Tern | 5% | 5 |
| Bridled Tern | 3% | 5 |
| Little Tern | 100% | 1 |
| Gull-billed Tern | 100% | 1 |
| Caspian Tern | 100% | 1 |
| White-winged Black Tern | 90% | 2 |
| Whiskered Tern | 100% | 1 |
| Common Tern | 80% | 2 |
| Crested Tern | 100% | 1 |
| Lesser Crested Tern | 70% | 2 |
| Rock Dove | 100% | 1 |
| White-headed Pigeon | 70% | 2 |
| Spotted Dove | 100% | 1 |
| Brown Cuckoo-Dove | 100% | 1 |
| Pacific Emerald Dove | 70% | 2 |
| Common Bronzewing | 100% | 1 |
| Crested Pigeon | 100% | 1 |
| Wonga Pigeon | 100% | 1 |
| Diamond Dove | 5% | 5 |
| Peaceful Dove | 100% | 1 |
| Bar-shouldered Dove | 100% | 1 |
| Wompoo Fruit-Dove | 90% | 2 |
| Superb Fruit-Dove | 40% | 2 |
| Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove | 100% | 2 |
| Topknot Pigeon | 100% | 2 |
| Pheasant Coucal | 100% | 1 |
| Pacific Koel | 100% | 1 |
| Channel-billed Cuckoo | 100% | 1 |
| Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo | 100% | 2 |
| Shining Bronze-Cuckoo | 100% | 1 |
| Little Bronze-Cuckoo | 100% | 2 |
| Pallid Cuckoo | 50% | 4 |
| Fan-tailed Cuckoo | 100% | 1 |
| Brush Cuckoo | 100% | 1 |
| Oriental Cuckoo | 70% | 4 |
| Sooty Owl | 100% | 2 |
| Australian Masked-Owl | 100% | 1 |
| Australasian Grass-Owl | 100% | 2 |
| Barn Owl | 60% | 4 |
| Powerful Owl | 100% | 1 |
| Barking Owl | 20% | 4 |
| Southern Boobook | 100% | 1 |
| Tawny Frogmouth | 100% | 1 |
| Marbled Frogmouth | 100% | 2 |
| White-throated Nightjar | 80% | 2 |
| Australian Owlet-nightjar | 100% | 2 |
| White-throated Needletail | 100% | 1 |
| Australian Swiftlet | 5% | 5 |
| Pacific Swift | 20% | 2 |
| Azure Kingfisher | 100% | 2 |
| Laughing Kookaburra | 100% | 1 |
| Blue-winged Kookaburra | 1% | 5 |
| Red-backed Kingfisher | 1% | 5 |
| Forest Kingfisher | 100% | 1 |
| Torresian Kingfisher | 100% | 1 |
| Sacred Kingfisher | 100% | 1 |
| Rainbow Bee-eater | 100% | 1 |
| Dollarbird | 100% | 1 |
| Nankeen Kestrel | 100% | 2 |
| Australian Hobby | 100% | 2 |
| Brown Falcon | 100% | 2 |
| Black Falcon | 5% | 5 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 100% | 2 |
| Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo | 5% | 5 |
| Glossy Black-Cockatoo | 5% | 5 |
| Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo | 80% | 2 |
| Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo | 100% | 2 |
| Galah | 100% | 1 |
| Long-billed Corella | 90% | 2 |
| Little Corella | 100% | 1 |
| Sulphur-crested Cockatoo | 100% | 1 |
| Cockatiel | 5% | 5 |
| Australian King-Parrot | 100% | 1 |
| Red-winged Parrot | 5% | 5 |
| Turquoise Parrot | 1% | 5 |
| Swift Parrot | 5% | 5 |
| Crimson Rosella | 100% | 1 |
| Eastern Rosella | 5% | 5 |
| Pale-headed Rosella | 100% | 1 |
| Red-rumped Parrot | 10% | 5 |
| Budgerigar | 5% | 5 |
| Musk Lorikeet | 70% | 2 |
| Little Lorikeet | 100% | 1 |
| Rainbow Lorikeet | 100% | 1 |
| Scaly-breasted Lorikeet | 100% | 1 |
| Noisy Pitta | 100% | 1 |
| Green Catbird | 100% | 1 |
| Regent Bowerbird | 100% | 2 |
| Satin Bowerbird | 100% | 2 |
| White-throated Treecreeper | 100% | 1 |
| Red-browed Treecreeper | 70% | 2 |
| Brown Treecreeper | 5% | 5 |
| Variegated Fairywren | 100% | 1 |
| Superb Fairywren | 100% | 1 |
| Red-backed Fairywren | 100% | 1 |
| Eastern Spinebill | 100% | 1 |
| Lewin’s Honeyeater | 100% | 1 |
| White-fronted Honeyeater | 1% | 5 |
| Yellow-faced Honeyeater | 100% | 1 |
| Yellow-tufted Honeyeater | 10% | 4 |
| Bell Miner | 100% | 1 |
| Noisy Miner | 100% | 1 |
| Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater | 1% | 5 |
| Little Wattlebird | 100% | 2 |
| Regent Honeyeater | 1% | 5 |
| Red Wattlebird | 1% | 5 |
| Mangrove Honeyeater | 100% | 1 |
| Fuscous Honeyeater | 100% | 1 |
| Dusky Honeyeater | 1% | 5 |
| Scarlet Honeyeater | 100% | 1 |
| Brown Honeyeater | 100% | 1 |
| New Holland Honeyeater | 100% | 1 |
| White-cheeked Honeyeater | 50% | 2 |
| Blue-faced Honeyeater | 100% | 1 |
| White-throated Honeyeater | 100% | 1 |
| White-naped Honeyeater | 100% | 2 |
| Brown-headed Honeyeater | 10% | 4 |
| Black-chinned Honeyeater | 10% | 4 |
| Striped Honeyeater | 100% | 1 |
| Painted Honeyeater | 1% | 5 |
| Little Friarbird | 100% | 1 |
| Noisy Friarbird | 100% | 1 |
| Spotted Pardalote | 100% | 1 |
| Striated Pardalote | 100% | 1 |
| Yellow-throated Scrubwren | 100% | 2 |
| White-browed Scrubwren | 100% | 1 |
| Large-billed Scrubwren | 100% | 1 |
| Speckled Warbler | 100% | 2 |
| Buff-rumped Thornbill | 100% | 2 |
| Brown Thornbill | 100% | 1 |
| Yellow-rumped Thornbill | 100% | 2 |
| Yellow Thornbill | 40% | 4 |
| Striated Thornbill | 100% | 2 |
| Weebill | 40% | 4 |
| White-throated Gerygone | 100% | 1 |
| Brown Gerygone | 100% | 1 |
| Mangrove Gerygone | 100% | 1 |
| Grey-crowned Babbler | 10% | 4 |
| Australian Logrunner | 100% | 2 |
| Eastern Whipbird | 100% | 1 |
| Spotted Quail-thrush | 60% | 2 |
| White-breasted Woodswallow | 100% | 1 |
| Masked Woodswallow | 10% | 5 |
| White-browed Woodswallow | 10% | 5 |
| Black-faced Woodswallow | 5% | 5 |
| Dusky Woodswallow | 10% | 5 |
| Little Woodswallow | 2% | 5 |
| Grey Butcherbird | 100% | 1 |
| Pied Butcherbird | 100% | 1 |
| Australian Magpie | 100% | 1 |
| Pied Currawong | 100% | 1 |
| Ground Cuckooshrike | 1% | 5 |
| Barred Cuckooshrike | 50% | 4 |
| Black-faced Cuckooshrike | 100% | 1 |
| White-bellied Cuckooshrike | 100% | 2 |
| White-winged Triller | 90% | 2 |
| Varied Triller | 100% | 1 |
| Common Cicadabird | 100% | 1 |
| Varied Sittella | 100% | 1 |
| Crested Shrike-tit | 30% | 4 |
| Little Shrikethrush | 100% | 1 |
| Grey Shrikethrush | 100% | 1 |
| Golden Whistler | 100% | 1 |
| Rufous Whistler | 100% | 1 |
| Olive-backed Oriole | 100% | 1 |
| Australasian Figbird | 100% | 1 |
| Spangled Drongo | 100% | 1 |
| Willie-wagtail | 100% | 1 |
| Rufous Fantail | 100% | 1 |
| Grey Fantail | 100% | 1 |
| White-eared Monarch | 100% | 1 |
| Black-faced Monarch | 100% | 2 |
| Spectacled Monarch | 100% | 2 |
| Magpie-lark | 100% | 1 |
| Leaden Flycatcher | 100% | 1 |
| Satin Flycatcher | 30% | 4 |
| Restless Flycatcher | 60% | 4 |
| Shining Flycatcher | 10% | 4 |
| Torresian Crow | 100% | 1 |
| Australian Raven | 1% | 5 |
| Apostlebird | 100% | 2 |
| Paradise Riflebird | 95% | 2 |
| Jacky-winter | 10% | 4 |
| Scarlet Robin | 5% | 5 |
| Red-capped Robin | 10% | 5 |
| Rose Robin | 90% | 2 |
| Hooded Robin | 5% | 5 |
| Pale-yellow Robin | 100% | 2 |
| Eastern Yellow Robin | 100% | 1 |
| Australasian Bushlark | 10% | 4 |
| Welcome Swallow | 100% | 1 |
| Fairy Martin | 100% | 1 |
| Tree Martin | 100% | 1 |
| White-backed Swallow | 1% | 5 |
| Australian Reed-Warbler | 100% | 1 |
| Little Grassbird | 50% | 2 |
| Brown Songlark | 1% | 5 |
| Tawny Grassbird | 100% | 1 |
| Rufous Songlark | 1% | 4 |
| Golden-headed Cisticola | 100% | 1 |
| Silvereye | 100% | 1 |
| Russet-tailed Thrush | 100% | 1 |
| Common Blackbird | 1% | 5 |
| European Starling | 100% | 1 |
| Common Myna | 100% | 1 |
| Mistletoebird | 100% | 1 |
| Eastern Yellow Wagtail | 5% | 5 |
| White Wagtail | 1% | 5 |
| Australasian Pipit | 100% | 1 |
| European Greenfinch | 1% | 5 |
| European Goldfinch | 1% | 5 |
| House Sparrow | 100% | 1 |
| Red-browed Finch | 100% | 1 |
| Plum-headed Finch | 20% | 5 |
| Zebra Finch | 5% | 5 |
| Double-barred Finch | 100% | 1 |
| Scaly-breasted Munia | 1% | 3 |
| Chestnut-breasted Munia | 100% | 1 |