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 |