New Guinea Map / Location
Photos of Forest Birds ... Listing below
New Guinea Water Birds ... New Guinea Birds of Prey ... New Guinea Parrots ... New Guinea Birds of Paradise
Listing: A - L (Below)
Listing: M - Z
Australasian Pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae)
Australasian / Australian Treecreepers (Red-browed Treecreeper, Climacteris erythrops; Rufous Treecreeper, Climacteris rufa; White-throated Treecreeper, Cormobates leucophaeus)
Australian Bustard (Ardeotis australis) aka Bush Turkey - Range: Southern New Guinea
Australian Magpie (Cracticus tibicen)
Australian Pipit (A. n. exiguus)
Australasian / Australian Treecreepers
Australo-Papuan or Australasian babblers (Pomatostomidae) aka pseudo-babblers
Azure Kingfisher (Alcedo azurea) - Range: Lowlands of New Guinea and neighboring islands
Bare-legged Swiftlet (Collocalia nuditarsus) - Range: Papua New Guinea
Bee-eaters (Meropidae)
Bismarck Thicketbird (Megalurulus grosvenori) - Range: Papua New Guinea
Black-faced Woodswallow (Artamus cinereus)
Blue-black Kingfisher (Todiramphus nigrocyaneus) - Range: Papua New Guinea
Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis)
Blue-winged Kookaburra (Dacelo leachii) - Range: Southern New Guinea
Bougainville Thicketbird (Megalurulus llaneae) - Range: Papua New Guine
Bowerbirds and Catbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae)
Brown Oriole (Oriolus szalayi) - Range: Papua New Guinea
Brown or Rusty Pitohui (Pitohui ferrugineus)
Brown Quail aka Swamp Quail (Coturnix ypsilophora)
Brown-winged Starling (Aplonis grandis) - Found in Papua New Guinea
Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis variolosus) - Native to northern New Guinea
Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher (Tanysiptera sylvia salvadoriana) - Range: South-east New Guinea, from R Angabunga to R Kemp Welch. Nominate species (Tanysiptera sylvia sylvia) migrates to South and North New Guinea in March to April.
Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae) - Range:, Papua New Guinea
Chestnut-breasted Finches (Lonchura castaneothorax)
Collared Kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris)
Common or European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris(Sturnus vulgaris) - Rare/Accidental
Crimson Finches (Neochmia phaeton) - Range: Southern New Guinea
Dusky Honeyeaters (Myzomela obscura)
Dwarf Cassowary (Casuarius bennetti) (Flightless Bird)
Fawn-breasted Bowerbird (Chlamydera cerviniventris)
Flame Bowerbird (Sericulus aureus)
Figbirds (Sphecotheres viridis)
Fire-maned Bowerbird (Sericulus bakeri) - Range: Adelbert Mountains in Papua New Guinea
Forest Kingfisher (Todiramphus macleayii), also known as the Macleay's or Blue Kingfisher - Range: native to Papua New Guinea
Glossy Swiftlet (Collocalia esculenta)
Golden Myna (Mino anais) - Range: Papua New Guinea
Greater Melampitta (Melampitta gigantea) - Range: Found in Papua New Guinea
Grey Crow (Corvus tristis) - Range: New Guinea and associated offshore islands
Grey Fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa)
Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) - Range: Papua New Guinea
Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous)
Horsfield's Cuckoo or Oriental Cuckoos (Cuculus optatus)
Island Leaf-warbler (Phylloscopus poliocephalus) - Range: Papua New Guinea
Island Thrush (Turdus poliocephalus)
Kookaburras / Kingfishers
Large-tailed Nightjar (Caprimulgus macrurus) - Range: Papua New Guinea
Lesser Melampitta (Melampitta lugubris) - Range: Mountain forests of New Guinea
Long-tailed Shrike (Lanius schach) - Range: Indomalayan ecozone from Kazakhstan and Afghanistan through India to New Guinea
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