Birds found in New Guinea
Birds native to, or found in, New Guinea:
Amboina or Amboyna King (Alisterus amboinensis) aka Moluccan King Parrot, Ambon King Parrot or Amboina Green-Winged King Parrot - Range: Islands of Moluccas and New Guinea
Antenna Satinbird or Crested Cnemophilus (Cnemophilus macgregorii): Found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Aru Red-cheeked Parrots (Geoffroyus geoffroyi aruensis) - Range: Aru Islands in the province of Maluku in eastern Indonesia, southern New Guinea, Fergusson and Goodenough Islands in eastern Papuan Islands, and Queensland / Australia
Arfak Alpine Lorikeets (Oreopsittacus arfaki arfaki) - Range: New Guinea
Australasian Pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae) - Range: Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea
Australasian / Australian Treecreepers (Red-browed Treecreeper, Climacteris erythrops; Rufous Treecreeper, Climacteris rufa; White-throated Treecreeper, Cormobates leucophaeus) - Range: Australia-New Guinea
Australian Bustard (Ardeotis australis) aka Bush Turkey - Range: Northern Australia and southern New Guinea
Australian Hobby / Falcon (Falco longipennis) - Range: Australia. Winters in Indonesia and New Guinea
Australian Magpie (Cracticus tibicen) - Range: Common and widespread in Australia and New Guinea
Australian Masked Owl (Tyto novaehollandiae) - Range: Southern New Guinea and the non-desert areas of Australia
Australian Pelican (Pelicanus conspicillatus) aka Goolayyalibee - Range: Australia, New Guinea, Fiji, parts of Indonesia, vagrant to New Zealand
Australian Pipit (A. n. exiguus) - Range: New Guinea
Australasian / Australian Treecreepers - Range: Australia - New Guinea.
Australo-Papuan or Australasian babblers (Pomatostomidae) aka pseudo-babblers - Range: Australia-New Guinea
Banded Lories or Dusky Lories (Pseudeos fuscatais / fuscata) - Range: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Barking Owls or Winking Owls - Range: Mainland Australia off the Eastern and Northern coast of the continent including areas surrounding Perth (Western Australia); also live in Parts of Papua New Guinea and the Moluccas
Barnes' Astrapia (hybrid bird of paradise) - Range: Montane forest of Papua New Guinea, on a small part of the Hagen Range and Mount Giluwe, usually at 2,400 - 2,600 m asl (Above mean sea level).
Beach Stone-curlew (Esacus giganteus) aka Beach Thick-knee - Range: Uncommon. Coastal eastern Australia as far south as far eastern Victoria, the northern Australian coast and nearby islands, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines
Beaufort's Black-capped Lories (Lorius or Domicella lory viridicrissalis) - Range: Northern New Guinea
Bee-eaters (Meropidae) - Range: Mostly Africa but others occur in southern Europe, Madagascar, Australia and New Guinea
Berlepsch's Parotia or Berlepsch's Six-wired Bird of Paradise (Parotia berlepschi) - Range: Foja Mountains of Papua, Indonesia
Biak Red-sided Eclectus Parrot (Eclectus roratus biaki aka Lorius roratus biaki) - Range: Biak Island, the largest of the Schouten Islands, off the northern coast of West Papua (the Indonesian part of New Guinea) at the entrance to Cenderawasih (Geelvink) Bay (part of Maluku Islands)
Birds of Paradise (Paradisaeidae) - Range: Eastern Indonesia, New Guinea and northeastern Australia
Bismarck's Hanging Parrot (Loriculus tener) - also known as the Green-fronted Hanging-parrot, Coryllis Des Bismark, or Lorículo De Las Bismarck - Range: Islands of New Hanover, New Ireland, New Britain and Duke of York Islands in Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea
Bismarck Thicketbird (Megalurulus grosvenori) - Range: Papua New Guinea
Black-billed Sicklebill (Epimachus albertisi) - Range: Mountain forests of New Guinea
Black-capped or Blue-naped Lory (Lorius lory lory) - Range: Waigeu, Batanta, Western Papuan Islands, Vogelkop, Western New Guinea
Black-faced Woodswallow (Artamus cinereus) - Range: Australia, New Guinea and the Sunda Islands, including Timor
Black Honey-buzzard, Bondrée Noire or Abejero Negro (Henicopernis infuscatus) - Endemic to Papua New Guinea
Black Lory (Chalcopsitta atra) - Range: Western New Guinea
Black-necked Stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) - Range: Southern Asia and Australasia, from India east to New Guinea and the northern half of Australia
Black Sicklebills (Epimachus fastuosus) - Range: Midmountain forests of New Guinea
Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) - Range: Europe and Asia. Migrate to western Europe, Africa, south Asia and Australia
Black-winged Lory, Blue-cheeked Lory (Eos cyanogenia) - Range: Islands of Biak, Numfoor, Manim and Mios Num in Geelvink Bay, Western New Guinea
Blue Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea rudolphi) - Range: Paradise is endemic to Papua New Guinea. It is distributed to mountain forests of southeastern New Guinea
Blue-eared Lories - Ceram Lories (Eos semilarvata) - Range: New Guinea, Aru Islands in the province of Maluku in eastern Indonesia, Papuan Islands (Eastern Indonesia)
Blue-eyed Cockatoo (Cacatua ophthalmica) - Range: New Ireland, New Guinea
Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis) - Range: Northern and eastern coasts of Australia and in New Guinea
Blue-faced Lories (Trichoglossus haematodus intermedius) - Range: Northern New Guinea from Torricelli Mountains and Sepik region to Astrolabe Bay
Blue-winged Kookaburra (Dacelo leachii) - Range: Southern New Guinea and the moister parts of northern Australia, from southern Queensland across the Top End, and as far down the Western Australian coast as the Shark Bay area
Bougainville Thicketbird (Megalurulus llaneae) - Range: Papua New Guine
Bowerbirds and Catbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae) - Range: Tropical northern part of Australia-New Guinea, some species extend into the central Australian desert and the cold mountainous regions of southeast Australia
Brehm's Tiger Parrot (Psittacella brehmii) - Range: Highlands of New Guinea
Brolga / Crane (Grus rubicunda) - Range: North and north-east Australia, especially north-east Queensland, and are common as far south as Victoria. Found in southern New Guinea and as rare vagrants in New Zealand and the northern part of Western Australia
Brown Cuckoo-dove (Macropygia phasianella) - Range: Eastern Australia from Weipa and Aurukun in the north to Bega in the south and most inland at Atherton and Toowoomba. Also visit Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Philippines
Brown Goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus) - Range: Australia, Tasmania, Wallacea, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Fiji
Brown Oriole (Oriolus szalayi) - Range: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Brown or Rusty Pitohui (Pitohui ferrugineus) - Range: New Guinea, Aru Islands in the province of Maluku in eastern Indonesia and West Papuan islands
Brown Quail aka Swamp Quail (Coturnix ypsilophora) - Range: New Guinea and the Lesser Sunda Islands as well as in northern, eastern, south-eastern and south-western Australia and Tasmania. Introduced to Fiji and New Zealand.
Brown Sicklebill (Epimachus meyeri) - Range: Mountain forests of New Guinea
Brown-winged Starling (Aplonis grandis) - Found in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands
Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis variolosus) - Native to the east coast of Australia and northern New Guinea
Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis) - Range: Australasia and the south-west Pacific region, including the Philippines, New Guinea and Australia
Buru Red Lories (Eos b. cyanonothus) - Range: New Guinea
Cardinal Lories (Chalcopsitta cardinalis) - Range: New Guinea
Carola's Parotia (Parotia carolae) - Range: Inhabits to mid-mountain forests of central New Guinea.
Ceram Lories (Eos semilarvata) - Range: New Guinea, Aru Islands in the province of Maluku, Papuan Islands (Eastern Indonesia)
Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae) - Range: Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia; additionally, it is vagrant in New Caledonia and New Zealand
Chestnut-breasted Finches (Lonchura castaneothorax) - Range: New Guinea and northern and eastern Australia
Collared Sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrocephalus) - Range: Widespread through Australia and New Guinea except for sandy deserts
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Comb-crested Jacanas (Irediparra gallinacea), also known as the Lotusbird or Lilytrotter, - Range: South-east Borneo, southern Philippines, Sulawesi, Moluccas, Lesser Sunda Islands, New Guinea, New Britain, northern and eastern Australia
Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) - Range: Europe and Asia
Curl-crested Manucode (Manucodia comrii) - Endemic to Papua New Guinea, distributed to the Trobriand Islands and islands of the D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago.
Crimson Finches (Neochmia phaeton) - Range: Northern Australia and southern New Guinea
Crinkle-collared Manucodes (Manucodia chalybatus) - Range: Lowlands and hill forests in mainland New Guinea and Misool Island of West Papua.
Deplanche's or Deplanchi's Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus deplanchii) - Range: New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands
Desmarest's Golden-headed Parrot is also known as Large Fig Parrot, Desmarest's Lory or Desmarest's Fig Parrots (Psittaculirostris desmarestii) - Range: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Doria's Goshawks (Megatriorchis doriae) - Range: Lowland rainforests of New Guinea and Batanta Island off western New Guinea
Double-eyed Fig Parrots (Cyclopsitta diophthalma) - Range: New Guinea, but isolated populations are also found along the tropical Australian coast, east of the Great Dividing Range
Duchess Lorikeet (Charmosyna margarethae) aka Lori De Margaret, Lori De Marguerite, or Lori De Margarita - Range: Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands
Dusky Honeyeaters (Myzomela obscura) - Range: New Guinea, the Moluccas, the islands of Torres Strait, and northern Australia, where there are two separated populations, one in the Top End, another from Cape York Peninsula along the east coast as far south as the New South Wales border, though the species is rare south of Rockhampton
Dusky Lory (Pseudeos fuscata or Pseudeos fuscatais) - also known as Banded Lory - Range: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Duyvenbode's Lory (Chalcopsitta duyvenbodeiis) - Range: North-western New Guinea, Western New Guinea, East Aitape Area, and the territory of New Guinea
Dwarf Cassowary (Casuarius bennetti) (Flightless Bird)
Eastern Parotia (Parotia helenae) - Range: Mountain forests of southeast Papua New Guinea
Eastern Riflebirds (Ptiloris intercedens) - Endemic to the lowlands of easternmost Papua New Guinea
Eclectus Parrot (Eclectus roratus) - Range: Solomon Islands, New Guinea, northeastern Australia and the Maluku Islands (Moluccas)
Edwards' Fig Parrot (P. edwardsii) - also known as Edwards's Fig-parrot or Edwards' Fig Parrot - Range: Indonesia and north-eastern New Guinea, specifically Humbolt Bay west to Irian and east to Huon Gulf.
Emerald Lorikeets or Orange-billed Lorikeets (Neopsittacus pullicauda) - Range: New Guinea
Emperor Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea guilielmi) - Range: Endemic to Papua New Guinea. It is distributed in hill forests of the Huon Peninsula.
Fairy Lorikeets (Charmosyna pulchella pulchella) - Range: New Guinea
Fawn-breasted Bowerbird (Chlamydera cerviniventris) - Range: New Guinea and northern Australia
Fergusson Island Lories (Lorius hypoinochrous devittatus) - Range: Trobriand and Woodlark Islands, Bismarck and D'Entrecastreaux Archipelagos, south-eastern New Guinea
Flame Bowerbird (Sericulus aureus) - Range: New Guinea
Figbirds (Sphecotheres viridis) - Range: Native to Indonesia, New Guinea, northern and eastern Australia, and the islands nearby.
Fig-parrots - Range: New Guinea and Australia
Fire-maned Bowerbird (Sericulus bakeri) - Range: Adelbert Mountains in Papua New Guinea
Glossy-mantled Manucodes (Manucodia ater) - Range: Widely distributed throughout the lowlands of New Guinea and nearby islands
Golden Myna (Mino anais) - Range: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Goldie's Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea decora) - Range: Papua New Guinea
Goldie's Lorikeets (Trichoglossus goldei) - Range: New Guinea
Great-billed Parrot (Tanygnathus megalorynchos) aka Moluccan Parrot or Island Parrot - Range: Islands off Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Islands and Maluku in eastern Indonesia, the Philippines and islands of west New Guinea
Greater Alpine Lorikeets (Oreopsittacus arfaki arfaki) - Range: New Guinea
Greater Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea apoda) - Range: Lowland and hill forests of southwest New Guinea and Aru Islands, Indonesia
Greater Madarasz's Parrot (Psittacella madaraszi major) - Range: Weyland Mountains and northern slopes Snow Mountains, Western New Guinea
Greater Melampitta (Melampitta gigantea) - Range: Found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Greater Sooty Owl (Tyto tenebricosa) - Range: South-eastern Australia, Montane rainforests of New Guinea. Also Flinders Island in the Bass Strait
Green-naped Lories or Rainbow Lories (Trichoglossus haematodus haematodus) - Range: New Guinea, Buru and Seram (formerly Ceram) - Maluku Province
Green Pygmy Goose (Nettapus pulchellus) - Range: Southern New Guinea and northern Australia
Green-streaked Lories (Chalcopsitta sintillata chloroptera) - Range: Southeast and Western New Guinea, Papua
Grey Crow (Corvus tristis) - Range: New Guinea and associated offshore islands
Grey Fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa) - Range: Common in all parts of Australia except western desert areas. Also found in New Zealand (where it is also known by its Maori name, Piwakawaka or Tiwakawaka), New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia
Grey-headed Goshawk, Accipiter poliocephalus - Endemic to New Guinea and adjacent islands. Has been recorded from Saibai Island, Queensland, Australian territory in north-western Torres Strait.
Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) - Range: Temperate Europe and Asia and parts of north Africa. Migrates to Africa, South Asia and Papua New Guinea
Gurney’s Eagle (Aquila gurneyi) - Range: New Guinea and adjacent islands westwards to the Moluccas. Recorded from Saibai and Boigu islands in north-western Torres Strait (Australia)
Hartert's Fairy Lorikeets (Charmosyna pulchella rothschild) - Range: Western New Guinea
Hartert's Orange-fronted Hanging Parrot (Loriculus aurantiifrons meeki) - Range: Islands of Goodenough and Fergusson in D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago, as well as southeastern New Guinea from east coast westwards along northern coast to Huon Peninsular and along southern coast to Lake Kutubu
Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) - Range: New Guinea
Horsfield's Cuckoo or Oriental Cuckoos (Cuculus optatus) - Range: Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, western Micronesia, the Solomon Islands and northern and eastern Australia with occasional birds reaching New Zealand. It has occurred as a vagrant in Ukraine, Israel and Alaska
Huon Astrapia or Rothschild’s Bird of Paradise (Astrapia rothschildi) - Range: Mountain forests of Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea
Huon Emerald Lorikeets (Neopsittacus pullicauda sociales) - Range: Herzog Mountains and mountains of Huon Peninsula, New Guinea
Huon Parrot (Psittacella madaraszi huonensis aka Psittacella modesta huonensis) - Range: Huon Peninsula in Papua New Guinea
Island Leaf-warbler (Phylloscopus poliocephalus) - Range: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands
Island Thrush (Turdus poliocephalus) - Range: Samoa, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, New Guinea and surrounding islands, many Indonesian islands, the Philippines and Taiwan
Jobi Lories (Lorius lory jobiensis) - Range: New Guinea
Jobi Manucode (Manucodia jobiensis) - Range: Lowland forests of Jobi Island and northern New Guinea
Josephine's Lorikeets (Charmosyna josefinae) - Range: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
King Bird of Paradise (Cicinnurus regius) - Range: Distributed throughout lowland forests of New Guinea and nearby islands
King of Saxony Bird of Paradise (Pteridophora alberti) - Range: The cloud forests of New Guinea
Kookaburras / Kingfishers - Range: Australia and NewGuinea
Large-tailed Nightjar (Caprimulgus macrurus) - Range: Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam
Latham's Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii) aka Japanese Snipe - Range: Hokkaidō in northern Japan, with smaller numbers on Honshū, the eastern Russian mainland and, historically, Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands. Winters in eastern Australia, where it is the commonest Gallinago snipe. Recorded on migration in Taiwan, the Philippines and New Guinea, and is a rare straggler to New Zealand
Lawes's Parotia (Parotia lawesii) - Range: Mountain forests of southeast and eastern Papua New Guinea.
Lesser Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea minor) - Range: Forests of northern New Guinea, and the nearby islands of Misool and Yapen in Indonesia
Lesser Melampitta (Melampitta lugubris) - Range: Mountain forests of New Guinea
Lilac-collared Parrot (G. s. buergersi) - Range: New Guinea: Western New Guinea, south-eastern Papua
Little Bitterns (Ixobrychus minutus dubius) - Range: Australia, New Guinea
Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) or Dabchick - Range: This bird breeds in small colonies in heavily vegetated areas of freshwater lakes across Europe, much of Asia down to New Guinea, and most of Africa
Little Pied Cormorant, Little Shag or Kawaupaka (Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) - Range: Coasts, islands, estuaries, and inland waters of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, and around the islands of the south-western Pacific and the sub-Antarctic
Long-tailed Honey-buzzard (Henicopernis longicauda) - Range: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Long-tailed Shrike (Lanius schach) - Range: Indomalayan ecozone from Kazakhstan and Afghanistan through India to New Guinea
Lorentz's Painted Tiger Parrots (Psittacella picta lorentzi) - Range: Snow Mountains, Western New Guinea
Louisiade Lories or Purple-bellied Lory (Lorius hypoinochrous hypoinochrous) - Range: Misima and Tagula in Louisiade Archipelago, Eastern Papuan Island, New Guinea
Macgregor's Bowerbird (Amblyornis macgregoriae) - Range: New Guinea's mountain forests
Madarasz's Parrots (Psittacella madaraszi madaraszi) - Range: Mountains of south-eastern New Guinea
Magnificent Bird of Paradise (Cicinnurus magnificus) - Range: Hill and mid-mountain forests of New Guinea and surrounding islands
Magnificent Riflebird (Ptiloris magnificus) - Range: Lowland rainforests of New Guinea and northeastern Australia
Magpie Goose (Anseranas semipalmata) - Range: Australia and New Guinea
Mamberiok Black Lories (Chalcopsitta atra spectabilis) - Range: Mamberiok Peninsula, North-western New Guinea
Matthias Fantail (Rhipidura matthiae) - Range: Mussau in the St Matthias Islands of Papua New Guinea
Mayr's Painted Tiger Parrots (Psittacella b. excelsa) - Range: Mountains of Central Highlands of New Guinea
Macgregor's Bird of Paradise (Macgregoria pulchra) aka Macgregor's Giant Honeyeater and Ochre-winged Honeyeater - Range: Subalpine forests of New Guinea
Meek's Lorikeet (Charmosyna meeki) - Range: Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands
Melanesian Sooty Tern (Onychoprion fuscatus serrata) - Range: Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia
Metallic Starling (Aplonis metallica) - Range: New Guinea and nearby Australasian islands, and also a limited area of north eastern Australia
Meyer's Black-capped Lories (Lorius l. salvadorii) - Range: Northern New Guinea from Aitape area to Astrolabe Bay
Modest Parrots (modesta) - Range: Snow Mountains, Western New Guinea, Central Papua New Guinea
Mount Goliath Lorikeets (Charmosyna p. goliathina) - Range: Mountains of central New Guinea
Musschenbroek's Lorikeets (Yellow-billed Lorikeets) (Neopsittacus musschenbroekii) - Range: New Guinea
Nankeen Kestrel (F. cenchroides) - Range: Australia and New Guinea
Nankeen Night Heron aka Rufous Night Heron and in Melanesia as Melabaob (Nycticorax caledonicus) - Range: Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Melanesia
New Guinea Babbler (Pomatostomus isidorei)
New Guinea Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina melas)
New Guinea Harpy Eagle, Harpyopsis novaeguineae - Endemic to undisturbed tropical rainforests of New Guinea
New Guinea Hawk-eagle (Hieraaetus weiskei) - Range: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
New Guinea Logrunner (Orthonyx novaeguineae) - Range: Subtropical or tropical moist montanes of New Guinea
New Guinean Magpie (C. tibicen papuana) - Range: Southern New Guinea
New Guinea Pipit or Alpine Pipit (Anthus gutturalis) - Range: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Neumann's Brown Lories aka Neumann's Duyvenbode's Lories (Chalcopsitta duivenbodei syringanuchalis) - Range: North-eastern New-Guinea from Aitape Area, East to Astrolabe Bay
Spotless Crake (Porzana tabuensis) - Found in American Samoa, Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Micronesia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Pitcairn, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tonga
Nankeen or Australian Kestrels (Falco cenchroides) - Range: A common bird of prey found in Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands. Irregular visitor to New Zealand
Noisy Friarbird (Philemon corniculatus) aka Leatherhead - Range: New Guinea and eastern and south-eastern Australia, from north-eastern Queensland to north-eastern Victoria
Northern Cassowary aka Single (One)-wattled Cassowary or Gold(en)-neck(ed) Cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus)
Olive-backed Oriole (Oriolus sagittatus) - Range: Northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea
Orange-breasted Emerald Lorikeets (Neopsittacus pullicauda alpinus) - Range: Snow Mountains in West Irian east to head of Fly River, New Guinea
Orange-breasted Fig Parrots (Cyclopsitta gulielmiterti gulielmiterti) - Range: Salawati in Western Papuan Islands, Western Vogelkop, Western New Guinea
Orange-fronted Hanging-parrot (Loriculus aurantiifrons) - Range: Misool (Maluku Province) in western Papuan Islands in Indonesia, as well as in the independent state of Papua New Guinea.
Orange Lorikeets or Emerald Lorikeets (Neopsittacus pullicauda) - Range: New Guinea
Oriental Plover (Charadrius veredus) aka Oriental Dotterel - Range: Mongolia, eastern Russia and Manchuria; migrates through eastern China and South-East Asia to Indonesia and Australia. Rare in New Guinea; straggler to New Zealand
Pacific Baza or Crested Hawk (Aviceda subcristata) - Range: Coastal and subcoastal areas of northern and eastern Australia, Wallacea, New Guinea and adjacent islands.
Pacific Black Duck aka Grey Duck or Parera (Anas superciliosa) - Range: Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and many islands in the southwestern Pacific, reaching to the Caroline Islands in the north and French Polynesia in the east
Pacific Imperial-pigeon (Ducula pacifica) - Range: American Samoa, the Cook Islands, the smaller islands of eastern Fiji, Kiribati, Niue, the smaller satellite islands of Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands
Painted Tiger-parrot (Psittacella picta) - Range: Papua New Guinea
Pale-billed Sicklebill (Epimachus bruijnii) - Range: Lowland rainforests of northwestern New Guinea
Pale-headed Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus caeruleiceps) - Range: Southern New Guinea in southern Trans-Fly region and lower Fly River
Paler Brehm's Parrots (Psittacella brehmii pallida) - Range: Schrader Mountains, Hindenburg Mountains east to mountains of southeast New Guinea
Palm Cockatoos (Probosciger aterrimus aterrimus - Range: Aru Island, Misool Western Papuan Island (Maluku Province) in Western New Guinea, Northern Australia, Southern New Guinea, Cape York Peninsula
Papuan Harriers (Circus spilonotus spilothorax) - Bird of Prey - Range: Sattered across the whole of New Guinea except for the Vogelkop peninsula in the west
Papuan Lorikeets (Charmosyna papou papou) - Range: New Guinea / mountains of Vogelkop Peninsular, Irian Jaya, Indonesia
Peaceful Dove (Geopelia placida): Range: Australia and New Guinea - mainly found in the south of the island but also occur at a few sites in the north and on the Aru Islands in the province of Maluku in eastern Indonesia
Pesquet's Parrot (Psittrichas fulgidus) aka Vulturine Parrot - Range: New Guinea.
Pheasant Pigeon (Otidiphaps nobilis) - Range: Rainforests of New Guinea
Pleasing Lorikeets (Charmosyna placentis placentis) - Range: Seram, Pandjang, Ambelau; Kai and Aru Islands in the province of Maluku in eastern Indonesia; southern New Guinea east to upper reaches of Purari River, Papua-New Guinea; formerly also on Ambon
Pied Imperial Pigeon (Ducula bicolor) - Range: Small islands adjoining the Indian Ocean from the Nicobars in an arc to New Guinea. Northern Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Pied Bushchat (Saxicola caprata) - Range: Tropical southern Asia from the Middle East through India and eastwards to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Pitohui - Range: New Guinea
Ponape Lories (Trichoglossus rubiginosus), also known as Red Lorikeets, Cherry-red Lorikeets or Pohnpei Lorikeets - Range: Ponapé in Caroline Islands - a large archipelago of widely scattered islands in the western Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Guinea - situated in Micronesia.
Purple-bellied Lories (Lorius hypoinochrous) - Range: New Guinea
Pygmy Lorikeet (Charmosyna wilhelminae) - also known as Wilhemina's Lorikeet - Range: South-east New Guinea, Western New Guinea and East Huon Peninsula
Pygmy Parrots (Micropsittinae)
Raggiana Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea raggiana) - Range: Southern and north eastern New Guinea, where its name is kumul or cenderawasih
Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus) - Range: Common in southern Australia and Tasmania. They migrate north during the winter into northern Australia, New Guinea, and some of the southern islands of Indonesia
Rainbow Lories / Lorikeets (Green Naped) aka Green Naped Lories / Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus haematodus) - Range: New Guinea, Buru and Seram (formerly Ceram) in the province of Maluku
Rajah Lories (Chalcopsitta atra insignis) - Range: New Guinea
Red-cheeked Parrot (Geoffroyus geoffroyi geoffroyi) - Range: Australia, Indonesia - specifically Timor (province East Nusa Tenggara) and Wetar Islands (province Maluku) in the Lesser Sunda Islands, and Papua New Guinea
Red-flanked Lorikeets (Charmosyna placentis placentis) - Range: Seram, Pandjang, Ambelau; Kai and Aru Islands in the province of Maluku in eastern Indonesia; southern New Guinea east to upper reaches of Purari River, Papua-New Guinea; formerly also on Ambon
Red-fronted Lories or Carmine-fronted Lories (Chalcopsitta sintilla rubrifrons) - Range: New Guinea
Red-kneed Dotterel (Erythrogonys cinctus) - Range: Southern New Guinea and mainland Australia; vagrant to Tasmania and New Zealand
Red-rumped or Red-spotted Lorikeets (Charmosyna rubronotata rubronotata) - Range: Salawati and northwest New Guinea
Red-sided Eclectus Parrot (Eclectus roratus polychloros aka Lorius roratus polychloros) - Range: Kai (Maluku Province) and Western Papuan Islands, New Guinea and offshore Islands,Trobiand Islands and D'Entrecasteaux, Louisiade Archipelagos
Red Wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata) - Range: Southern Australia and New Guinea
Red-winged Parrots (Aprosmictus erythropterus) aka red-shouldered parrots / parakeets, blood-winged and crimson-winged parrots / parakeets - Range: Southern New Guinea and northern and northeastern Australia, except along the east coast
Restless Flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta) - Range: Australia and Papua New Guinea
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Ribbon-tailed Astrapia also known as Shaw Mayer's Astrapia (Astrapia mayeri) - Endemic to subalpine forests in western part of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea
Rosenberg's Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus rosenbergi) - Range: Islands off north coast of New Guinea
Rothschild’s Bird of Paradise (Hybrid) - Range: New Guinea (only ~4 specimens are known)
Rothschild's Lobe-billed Bird of Paradise - Range: Papua New Guinea (only known from the holotype)
Rufous-bellied Kookaburra (Dacelo gaudichaud) - Range: Lowland New Guinea
Rusty Thicketbird (Megalurulus rubiginosus) - Range: Papua New Guinea.
Salvadory Black-capped Lories (Psittaculirostris salvadori) - Range: New Guinea
Salvadori's Teal or Salvadori's Duck (Salvadorina waigiuensis) - Range: New Guinea
Salvadori's Green-winged King Parrots (Alisterus chloropterus callopterus) - Range: Central New Guinea, Western New Guinea
Sclater's Red-flanked Lorikeets (Charmosyna placentis subplacens) - Range: Eastern and northern New Guinea west to Bereina area and south to Sarmi District, Irian Jaya, Indonesia
Sepik Lorikeets (Charmosyna josefinae sepikiana) - Range: Mountains of Sepik region, from Vogelkop Peninsula east to Snow Mountains, Irian Jaya, Indonesia and western Papua New Guinea
Sharpe’s Lobe-billed Parotia or Sharpe’s Lobe-billed Riflebird (Paradisaeidae / Birds of Paradise - hybrid between a Long-tailed Paradigalla and Western Parotia)
Schodde’s Bird of Paradise (bird of paradise hybrid) - Only one specimen found in Trepikama in the Baiyer Valley of Papua New Guinea
Short-tailed Paradigalla (Paradigalla brevicauda) - Range: The mountain forests of New Guinea
Silken Satinbird or Yellow-breasted Bird-of-paradise (Loboparadisea sericea) - Range: Endemic to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Singing Starlings (Aplonis cantoroides): Range: New Guinea and someadjacent islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, Admiralty Islands and Solomon Islands. They have been recorded from Boigu and Saibai Islands, Queensland, Australian territory in north-western Torres Strait.
Smoky Honeyeater (Melipotes fumigatus) - Range: New Guinea - central Ranges across the length of the island as well as two isolated populations on north west and north of the island
Snow Mountains Modest Parrot (Psittacella modesta collaris) - Range: Snow Mountains, Western New Guinea
Snow Mountain Quail (Anurophasis monorthonyx) - Range: Indonesian endemic, confined to New Guinea's highest elevations, the Snow Mountains of Irian Jaya - in the Alpine grasslands at an elevation above 9850 ft (3000 metres).
Solomon Island Red-flanked Lorikeets (Charmosyna placentis pallidior) - Range: Eastern and northern New Guinea west to Bereina area and south to Sarmi District, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Island (Bougainville and Fead)
Somu Lories (Lorius l. somu) - Range: Southern New Guinea from Karimui Basin to Ok Tedi area
Southern Alpine Lorikeets (Oreopsittacus arfaki grandis) - Range: Southeast New Guinea west to Huon peninsula and Sepik Region
Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius)
Southern Boobook (Ninox novaeseelandiae) - Range: New Zealand, Australia, Timor, southern New Guinea and nearby islands
Southern Crowned Pigeon (Goura scheepmakeri) - Range: Southern lowland forests of New Guinea
Southern Green-naped Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus micropteryx) - Range: Eastern New Guinea; islands of Manam, Bagabag and Misima
Southern Musschenbroek's Lorikeets (Neopsittacus musschenbroekii major) - Range: Mountains of South-eastern New Guinea to Southern Papua
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) - Range: East coast of Australia, extending along the northern coast and across the seas into Papua New Guinea
Superb Bird of Paradise (Lophorina superba) - Range: Rainforests of New Guinea
Spangled Honeyeater (Melipotes ater) - Endemic to Papua New Guinea
Spangled Kookaburra (Dacelo tyro) - Range: Aru Islands in the province of Maluku in eastern Indonesia and the savannahs of southern New Guinea
Splendid Astrapia (Astrapia splendidissima) - Range: Mountain forests in western part of the central highlands of New Guinea
Stella's Lorikeets (Charmosyna papou stellae) - Range: New Guinea
Stephanie's Astrapia (Astrapia stephaniae) - Range: Papua New Guinea
Striated Lorikeets (Charmosyna multistriata) - Range: Western New Guinea
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) - Range: East coast of Australia, extending along the northern coast and across the seas into Papua New Guinea
Superb Bird of Paradise (Lophorina superba) - Range: Rainforests of New Guinea
Swinhoe's Snipe (Gallinago megala) aka Forest Snipe or Chinese Snipe - Range: Central and southern Siberia and Mongolia. Migrates and spends non-breeding season principally in eastern and southern India, Sri Lanka, south-eastern China, South-East Asia and New Guinea. Recorded on migration in eastern China, and occasionally Japan. Records in Australia mainly from the Top End of the Northern Territory and from north-western Western Australia
Torresian Crow (Corvus orru) aka Australian Crow - Range: The nominate form occurs from Papua New Guinea and the Moluccas / Maluku Province ) and C. orru latirostris is from Tenimber and Barbar Islands (Maluku province)
Triton Cockatoo / White Black-billed Cockatoos (Cacatua galerita triton aka Cacatua triton) - Range: Western Papua Islands, Western New Guinea, New Guinea, Geelvink Bay, other Islands Around Indonesia
Trumpet Manucodes (Bird of Paradise) - Range: Lowland rainforests of northeastern Australia, New Guinea and nearby islands.
Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise (Seleucidis melanoleuca) - Range: New Guinea and Salawati Island of Irian Jaya
Van Oort Black Lories (Mamberiok Black Lory) (Chalcopsitta atra spectabilis) - Range: Mamberiok Peninsula, North-western New Guinea
Velvet Satinbird (Cnemophilus loriae), formerly Loria's Bird of Paradise): Endemic to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Victoria Crowned Pigeon (Goura victoria) - Range: Northern New Guinea and surrounding islands
Victoria Lories or Southern Alpine Lorikeets (Oreopsittacus arfaki arfaki) - Range: New Guinea
Violet-necked Lories (Eos squamata) - Range: New Guinea
Vogelkop Bowerbird (Amblyornis inornata) - Range: Mountains of the Vogelkop Peninsula at Western New Guinea, Indonesia
Wahne's Lorikeets (Charmosyna p. wahnesi) - Range: Mountains of Huon Peninsular and Adelbert Mountains, Papua New Guinea
Wahnes's Parotia (Parotia wahnesi) - Range: Mountain forests of Huon Peninsula and Adelbert Mountains, northeast Papua New Guinea
Wattled Smoky Honeyeater (Melipotes carolae): Only discovered in 2005 - found in remote montane forests of Foja Mountains range, Western New Guinea at an altitude over 1,150 metres.
Wedge-tailed Eagle or Eaglehawk (Aquila audax) - Range: Wedge-tails are found throughout Australia, including Tasmania, and southern New Guinea
Western Crowned Pigeon (Goura cristata) - Range: Lowland rainforests of Irian Jaya, Indonesia section of New Guinea
Western Musschenbroek's Lorikeets (Neopsittacus musschenbroekii medius) - Range: Snow Mountains, Western New Guinea
Western Parotia (Parotia sefilata) - Range: Endemic to Indonesia, found only in the mountain forests of Vogelkop and Wandammen Peninsula of Western New Guinea
Wilhelmina's Lorikeets (Charmosyna wilhelminae) - Range: New Guinea
Whiskered Lorikeets (Oreopsittacus arfaki arfaki) - Range: New Guinea
Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus) - Range: Australia, New Caledonia and much of New Guinea
White-bellied Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster) - Resident from India through southeast Asia to Australia on coasts and major waterways
White-browed Crakes (Porzana cinerea) - Found in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand and Vanuatu.
White-faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae, formerly Ardea novaehollandiae) aka Grey Heron - Range: Australasia, including New Guinea, the islands of Torres Strait, Indonesia, New Zealand, the islands of the sub-Antarctic, and all but the driest areas of Australia
White-eared Catbird (Ailuroedus buccoides) - Range: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
White-naped Lory (Lorius albidinucha) aka Lori À Nuque Blanche or Lori Nuquiblanco - Range: Papua New Guinea
White-winged Triller (Lalage tricolor) - Range: Australia and possibly on the islands to the north, including New Guinea and eastern Indonesia
Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys) - Range: Mainland of Australia and northern
Tasmania, and extends to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Bismarck Archipelago, and eastern Indonesia
Yellow-billed Lorikeets (Neopsittacus musschenbroekii) - Range: New Guinea
Yellow-breasted Bowerbird (Chlamydera lauterbachi) aka Lauterbach's Bowerbird - Range: Mainland New Guinea
Yellow-faced Mynahs (Mino dumontii)
Yellow Oriole or Green Oriole (Oriolus flavocinctus) - Range: New Guinea and northern Australia, including Cape York Peninsula, the Top End and the Kimberley
Yellow-streaked Lories (Chalcopsitta sintilla sintilla) - Range: New Guinea
Yellow-streaked Lorikeets or Striated Lorikeets (Charmosyna multistriata) - Range: Western New Guinea
Zebra Dove (Geopelia striata, also called Barred Ground Dove) - Range: Malay Peninsula, Sunda Islands and the Philippine
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