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Species By Family
Australian Babblers
Birds of Paradise
Bulbuls
Chough and Apostlebird
Crakes, Rails and Swamphens
Cuckoos
Ducks, Geese and Swans
gaggle (on the ground), skein (in flight), plump (flying close together)
Fairy-wrens, Emu-wrens and Grasswrens
herd, chime
Frigatebirds
Grebes
Honeyeaters and Chats
Kingfishers
Lyrebirds
Monarch and Flycatchers
Old World Finches
Owlet Nightjars
Parrots, Lorikeets and Rosellas
company, pandemonium
Pheasants and Quail
bevy, covey, drift
Plovers, Dotterel and Lapwings
congregation, stand, wing
Scrub-birds
Skuas and Jaegers
Stilts and Avocets
Swallows and Martins
flight, gulp
Treecreepers
Whipbirds and Wedgebills
Australian Robins
Boatbills
Buntings
Cisticolas
Cranes
Darter
Eagles, Kites, Goshawks
boil, cast, kettle, lease
Falcons
Frogmouths
Gulls, Terns and Noddies
colony
Hoopoes
Larks
bevy, exaltation
Magpie Goose
New World Quail
Old world flycatchers
Oystercatchers
Pelican
squadron, scoop, pod
Pigeons and Doves
kit
Pratincoles
Shrikes
Snipe, Sandpipers, Godwits, Curlew, Stints and Phalaropes
walk, whisp
Stone-curlews
Swifts and Swiftlets
Tropicbirds
Whistlers, Shrike-thrushes and allies
Australo-Papuan Bellbirds
Bowerbirds and Catbirds
Bustards
Cockatoos and Corellas
Crows and Ravens
congress, unkindness
Default
Eared Nightjars
Fantails
Gannets and Boobies
Hawk-Owls
parliament, stare, wisdom
Ibis and Spoonbills
colony
Leaf Warblers
Masked Owls
parliament, stare, wisdom
Nightjars
Orioles and Figbirds
Painted Snipe
Penguins
colony, waddle, rookery (on land), raft (at sea)
Pipits and Wagtails
Reed-Warblers
Shriketits
Southern Storm-Petrels
Storks
mustering, phalanx (migrating)
Thornbills and Gerygones
True Babblers
Woodswallows, Currawongs, Butcherbirds and Magpie
charm, congregation, gulp, murder, tiding, tittering
Bee-eaters
Bristlebirds
Button-quail
Cormorants and Shags
Cuckoo-shrikes and Trillers
Drongos
Emus and Cassowaries
mob
Flowerpeckers
Grassbirds
Herons, Egrets and Bitterns
seige, sedge
Jacanas
Logrunners
Megapodes
gang, rafter, gobble, posse, raffle
Northern Storm-Petrels
Osprey
Pardalotes
Petrels and Shearwaters
Pittas
Rollers
Sittellas
Starlings
chattering, cloud, congregation, murmuration, clattering
Sunbirds
Thrushes
Weaver Finches
charm
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