BQ Rarities Appraisal Committee species list – Updated 2019
Taxonomy follows International Ornithological Congress (IOC)
This is a list of species that the Bird Queensland Rarities Appraisal Committee would like to look. It at was last updated in 2019 with a few species removed and several more species added.
Reports should be submitted for any of the following species, and if the species is of National significance (shown in bold in the table) then the report will be referred on to Birdlife Australia’s Rarities Committee (BARC).
| Common name | Scientific name |
|---|---|
| Spotted Whistling Duck | Dendrocygna guttata |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata |
| Little Penguin | Eudyptula minor |
| White-bellied Storm Petrel | Fregetta grallaria |
| Polynesian Storm Petrel | Nesofregetta fuliginosa |
| Wandering Albatross | Diomedea exulans |
| Antipodean Albatross | Diomedea antipodensis (D.a. antipodensis and D.a. gibsoni) |
| Southern Royal Albatross | Diomedea epomophora |
| Sooty Albatross | Phoebetria fusca |
| Light-mantled Albatross | Phoebetria palpebrata |
| Shy Albatross | Thalassarche cauta (T.c. cauta and T.c. steadi) |
| Salvin’s Albatross | Thalassarche salvini |
| Grey-headed Albatross | Thalassarche chrysostoma |
| Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross | Thalassarche carteri |
| Buller’s Albatross | Thalassarche bulleri (T.b. bulleri and T.b. platei) |
| Leach’s Storm Petrel | Oceanodroma leucorhoa |
| Southern Fulmar | Fulmarus glacialoides |
| Blue Petrel | Halobaena caerulea |
| Broad-billed Prion | Pachyptila vittata |
| Salvin’s Prion | Pachyptila salvini |
| Antarctic Prion | Pachyptila desolata1 |
| Slender-billed Prion | Pachyptila belcheri1 |
| Kerguelen Petrel | Aphrodroma brevirostris |
| Great-winged Petrel | Pterodroma macroptera |
| Soft-plumaged Petrel | Pterodroma mollis |
| Herald Petrel | Pterodroma heraldica |
| Mottled Petrel | Pterodroma inexpectata |
| White-necked Petrel | Pterodroma cervicalis |
| Black-winged Petrel | Pterodroma nigripennis |
| Collared Petrel | Pterodroma brevipes |
| Cook’s Petrel | Pterodroma cookii |
| Stejneger’s Petrel | Pterodroma longirostris |
| White-chinned Petrel | Procellaria aequinoctialis |
| Black Petrel | Procellaria parkinsoni |
| Westland Petrel | Procellaria westlandica |
| Tropical Shearwater | Puffinus bailloni |
| Little Shearwater | Puffinus assimilis |
| Common Diving Petrel | Pelecanoides urinatrix |
| Bulwer’s Petrel | Bulweria bulwerii |
| Yellow Bittern | Ixobrychus sinensis |
| Gurney’s Eagle | Aquila gurneyi |
| Red Goshawk | Erythrotriorchis radiatus |
| Buff-breasted Buttonquail | Turnix olivii |
| South Island Oystercatcher | Haematopus finschi |
| Banded Stilt | Cladorhynchus leucocephalus |
| Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula |
| Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius |
| Australian Painted-snipe | Rostratula australis |
| Plains-wanderer | Pedionomus torquatus |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax |
| Long-toed Stint | Calidris subminuta |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina |
| Swinhoe’s Snipe | Gallinago megala |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus |
| Red Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes |
| Common Redshank | Tringa totanus |
| Grey Noddy | Anous albivitta |
| White Tern | Gygis alba |
| Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla |
| Franklin’s Gull | Leucophaeus pipixcan |
| Pacific Gull | Larus pacificus |
| Black-tailed Gull | Larus crassirostris |
| Kelp Gull | Larus dominicanus |
| Slaty-backed Gull | Larus schistisagus |
| Fairy Tern | Sternula nereis |
| Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea |
| South Polar Skua | Stercorarius maccormicki |
| Brown Skua | Stercorarius antarcticus |
| Long-tailed Jaeger | Stercorarius longicaudus |
| Orange-fronted Fruit Dove | Ptilinopus aurantiifrons |
| Orange-bellied Fruit Dove | Ptilinopus iozonus |
| Collared Imperial Pigeon | Ducula mullerii |
| Zoe’s Imperial Pigeon | Ducula zoeae |
| Pacific Long-tailed Cuckoo | Urodynamis taitensis |
| Glossy Swiftlet | Collocalia esculenta |
| Uniform Swiftlet | Aerodramus vanikorensis |
| Papuan Spine-tailed Swift | Mearnsia novaeguineae |
| House Swift | Apus nipalensis |
| Little Paradise Kingfisher | Tanysiptera hydrocharis |
| Superb Parrot | Polytelis swainsonii |
| Princess Parrot | Polytelis alexandrae |
| Golden-shouldered Parrot | Psephotus chrysopterygius2 |
| Paradise Parrot | Psephotellus pulcherrimus |
| Swift Parrot | Lathamus discolor |
| Night Parrot | Pezoporus occidentalis |
| Blue-winged Parrot | Neophema chrysostoma |
| Elegant Parrot | Neophema elegans |
| Scarlet-chested Parrot | Neophema splendida |
| Purple-crowned Lorikeet | Parvipsitta porphyrocephala |
| Double-eyed Fig Parrot (Coxen’s) | Cyclopsitta diophthalma coxeni |
| Regent Honeyeater | Anthochaera phrygia |
| Eastern Bristlebird | Dasyornis brachypterus |
| Rufous Fieldwren | Calamanthus campestris |
| Slaty-backed Thornbill | Acanthiza robustirostris |
| Banded Whiteface | Aphelocephala nigricincta |
| Black-billed Magpie | Pica hudsonia |
| Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica |
| Oriental Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus orientalis |
| Singing Starling | Aplonis cantoroides |
| Common Blackbird | Turdus merula |
| Eyebrowed Thrush | Turdus obscurus |
| Blue Rock Thrush | Monticola solitarius |
| Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina |
| Red-capped Flowerpecker | Dicaeum geelvinkianum |
| Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus |
| Star Finch (eastern form) | Neochmia ruficauda ruficauda |
| Black-throated Finch (white-rumped form) | Poephila cincta cincta3 |
| Gouldian Finch | Erythura gouldiae2 |
| Grey Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea |
| White Wagtail | Motacilla alba |
| European Greenfinch | Chloris chloris |
| Common Redpoll | Acanthis flammea |
- 1 All non-specimen records only
- 2 Records outside known range for the species as defined in The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000 (Garnett et al. 2011)
- 3 All records south of 21°S
Records in bold = species that need to be referred to BARC (Birdlife Australia Rarities Committee).
