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Welcome to BirdLife Australia!

As of 1 January 2012, BOCA has merged with Birds Australia to become BirdLife Australia. The new BirdLife Australia website will go live in early February, and until then the current BOCA site will continue to be available.

At BirdLife Australia we are dedicated to achieving outstanding conservation results for our native birds and their habitats. With our specialised knowledge and the commitment of an Australia-wide network of members, volunteers and supporters, we are creating a bright future for Australia’s birds. Look out for our new website from February 2012 at birdlife.org.au

Photos Wanted

Red-necked Stint Copyright  (Photographer: Jennifer Spry)

We are always looking for new photos of birds - currently you have to be a member of BOCA or PhotoBOCA and signed in to submit images to us. Technically we limit images to 1024 pixels by 768 pixels (and prefer that ratio except for the "header images" mentioned below). Files must be in JPEG format and no bigger than 512 kbytes. We also expect photographers to adhere to our code of ethics.
We need photos of any Australian species in a "landscape" format of 800 pixels by 260 pixels for use in our headers.
We also lack photos of a number of Australian species, and these are listed below. Note that we will accept photos taken outside of Australia - so long as the subspecies photographed (where relevant) is the same as the one that has been seen in Australia. Our list is strictly in accordance with Christidis and Boles 2008 with new species as accepted by BARC.

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Common Name (Scientific Name) Common Name (Scientific Name)
Arctic Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis) Asian Dowitcher (Limnodromus semipalmatus)
Asian Drongo-Cuckoo (Surniculus lugubris) Asian Golden Weaver (Ploceus hypoxanthus)
Atlantic Petrel (Pterodroma incerta) Audubon's Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri)
Australian Swiftlet (Aerodramus terraereginae) Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)
Banded Fruit-Dove (Ptilinopus cinctus) Barau's Petrel (Pterodroma baraui)
Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica) Black Grasswren (Amytornis housei)
Black Petrel (Procellaria parkinsoni) Black Tern (Chlidonias niger)
Black-billed Magpie (Pica pica) Black-billed Sheathbill (Chionis minor)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticoras nycticorax) Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Black-headed Mannikin (Lonchura malacca) Black-nest Swiftlet (Aerodramus maximus)
Black-tailed Gull (Larus carassirostrus) Blue Rock Thrush (Monticola solitarius)
Blue-and-White Flycatcher (Cyanoptila cyanomelana) Blue-winged Pitta (Pitta mollucensis)
Bristle-thighed Curlew (Numenius tahitiensis) Brown Hawk-Owl (Ninox scutulata)
Brown Shrike (Lanius cristatus) Brown-backed Needletail (Hirundapus cochinchinensis)
Buff-breasted Button-quail (Turnix olivii) Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis)
Buffy Fish-Owl (Bubo ketupu) Buller's Shearwater (Ardenna bulleri)
Carpentarian Grasswren (Amytornis dorotheae) Caspian Plover (Charadrius asiaticus)
Chestnut-backed Button-quail (Turnix castanota) Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo (Cacomantis castaneiventris)
Chestnut-quilled Rock-Pigeon (Petrophassa rufipennis) Chinese Pond Heron (Ardeola bacchus)
Chowchilla (Orthonyx spaldingii) Chukar Partridge (Alectoris chukar)
Cinnamon Bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamoneus) Citrine Wagtail (Motacilla citreola)
Collared Imperial-Pigeon (Ducula mullerii) Collared Petrel (Pterodroma brevipes)
Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) Common Paradise-Kingfisher (Tanysiptera galatea)
Cook's Petrel (Pterodroma cookii) Corncrake (Crex crex)
Dark-sided Flycatcher (Muscicapa sibirica) Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
Eastern Bristlebird (Dasyornis brachypterus) Eastern Grass Owl (Tyto longimembris)
Edible-nest Swiftlet (Aerodramus fuciphagus) Elegant Imperial-Pigeon (Ducula concinna)
Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) Erect-crested Penguin (Eudyptes sclateri)
Eurasian Curlew (Numenius arquata) Eurasian Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria)
Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo) Fawn-breasted Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus cerviniventris)
Fernwren (Oreoscopus gutturalis) Fiordland Penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus)
Franklin's Gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan) Frilled Monarch (Arses telescopthalmus)
Fulmar Prion (Pachyptila crassirostris) Garganey (Anas querquedula)
Glossy Swiftlet (Collocalia esculenta) Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)
Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus) Green-backed Honeyeater (Glycichaera fallax)
Green-headed Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla taivana) Grey Grasswren (Amytornis barbatus)
Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) Grey Nightjar (Caprimulgus indicus)
Grey Petrel (Procellaria cinerea) Grey Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius)
Ground Parrot (Pezoporus wallicus) Gurney's Eagle (Aquila gurneyi)
Herald Petrel (Pterodroma heraldica) Himalayan Cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus)
Hooded Parrot (Psephotus dissimilis) House Crow (Corvus splendins)
House Swift (Apus affinis) Isabelline Wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina)
Java Sparrow (Longchura oryzivora) Jouanin's Petrel (Bulweria fallax)
Juan Fernandez Petrel (Pterodroma externa) Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)
Kerguelen Petrel (Lugensa brevirostris) Kerguelen Pintail (Anas eatoni)
Kerguelen Shag (Leucocarbo verrucosus) Kerguelen Tern (Sterna virgata)
Kimberley Honeyeater (Meliphagia fordiana) King Quail (Excalfactoria chinensis)
Large Hawk-Cuckoo (Hierococcyx sparverioides) Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)
Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutablis) Leach's Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates leucorhoa)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) Lesser Coucal (Centropus bengalensis)
Lesser Noddy (Anous tenuirostris) Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
Little Paradise-Kingfisher (Tanysiptera hydrocharis) Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius)
Little Shearwater (Puffinus assimilis) Long-tailed Cuckoo (Urodynamys taitensis)
Magellanic Penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) Malayan Night-Heron (Gorsachius melanolophus)
Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae)
Matsudaira's Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates matsudairae) Mew Gull (Larus canus)
Middendorff's Warbler (Locustella ochotensis) Mountain Thornbill (Acanthiza katherina)
Narcissus Flycatcher (Ficedula narcissina) Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica)
Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) Noisy Scrub-bird (Atrichornis clamosus)
Nordmann's Greenshank (Tringa guttifer) Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)
Northern Scrub-robin (Drymodes superciliaris) Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove (Ptilinopus iosonus)
Oriental Honey-buzzard (Pernis ptilorynchus) Oriental Reed-Warbler (Acrocephalus orientalis)
Pale White-eye (Zosterops citrinella) Pale-headed Munia (Lonchura pallida)
Pale-vented Bush-hen (Amaurornis moluccana) Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler (Locustella certhiola)
Papuan Spine-tailed Swift (Mearnsia novaeguinae) Paradise Riflebird (Ptiloris paradiseus)
Pechora Pipit (Anthus gustavi) Pheasant-tailed Jacana (Hydrophasianus chirurgus)
Pictorella Mannikin (Heteromunia pectoralis) Pin-tailed Snipe (Gallinago stenura)
Pink-footed Shearwater (Ardenna creatopus) Polynesian Storm-Petrel (Nesofregetta fuliginosa)
Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea) Purple-backed Starling (Sturnus sturninus)
Pycroft's Petrel (Pterodroma pycrofti) Red Bishop (Euplectes orix)
Red Collared Dove (Streptopelia tranquebarica) Red-bellied Pitta (Pitta erythrogaster)
Red-capped Flowerpecker (Dicaeum geelvinkianum) Red-cheeked Parrot (Geoffroyus geoffroyi)
Red-chested Button-quail (Turnix phyrrothorax) Red-legged Crake (Rallina fasciata)
Red-necked Crake (Rallina tricolor) Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis daurica) Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus)
Red-whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus) Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula)
Rosy Starling (Sturnus roseus) Ruddy-breasted Crake (Porzana fusca)
Rufous Scrub-bird (Atrichornis rufescens) Rufous-bellied Kookaburra (Dacelo gaudichaud)
Russet-tailed Thrush (Zoothera heinei) Sabine's Gull (Xema sabini)
Salvin's Prion (Pachyptila salvini) Sandstone Shrike-thrush (Collurincla woodwardi)
Savanna Nightjar (Caprimulgus affinis) Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)
Silver-backed Needletail (Hirundapus giganteus) Silver-crowned Friarbird (Philemon argenticeps)
Singing Starling (Aplornis cantoroides) Slender-billed Thornbill (Acanthiza iredalei)
Snares Penguin (Eudyptes robustus) Snow Petrel (Padrodroma nivea)
Soft-plumaged Petrel (Pterodroma mollis) Sooty Albatross (Phoebetria fusca)
South Georgian Diving-Petrel (Pelecanoides georgicus) Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus)
Spotted Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna guttata) Streak-headed Mannikin (Lonchura tristissima)
Streaked Shearwater (Calonectris leucomelas) Sunda Teal (Anas gibberifrons)
Swinhoe's Snipe (Gallinago megala) Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates monorhis)
Tawny-breasted Honeyeater (Xanthotis flaviventer) Tiger Shrike (Lanius tigrinus)
Tristram's Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates tristrami) Tropical Scrubwren (Sericornis beccarii)
Trumpet Manucode (Phonnygammus keraudrenii) Uniform Swiftlet (Aerodramus vanikorensis)
Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) Vanuatu Petrel (Pterodroma occulta)
Varied Lorikeet (Psitteuteles versicolor) Wallace's Fruit-Dove (Ptilinopus wallacii)
Wallacean Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina personata) Watercock (Gallicrex cinerea)
Weka (Gallirallus australis) Western Bristlebird (Dasyornis longirostris)
Western Reef Egret (Egretta gularis) White-chested White-eye (Zosterops albogularis)
White-eyed Buzzard (Butastur teesa) White-faced Robin (Tregellasia leucops)
White-lined Honeyeater (Meliphaga albilineata) White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscilcollis)
White-throated Grasswren (Amytornis woodwardi) White-throated Nightjar (Eurostopodus mystacalis)
White-winged Widowbird (Euplectes albonotatus) Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
Wilson's Phalarope (Steganopus tricolor) Yellow Bittern (Ixobrychus sinensis)