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The Shoalhaven on the NSW south coast is home to an amazing variety of birds and is a mecca for birdwatchers.
BirdLife Shoalhaven promotes a better understanding of our birds and works tirelessly to ensure their survival.





Shorebirds

The list below should be fairly representative of the birds that you are likely to see on the Shoalhaven coast. All the images on this page are by Charles Dove.

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Australasian Darter
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Australasian Grebe
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Australasian Shoveler
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Australian Pelican

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Australian Shelduck

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Australian White Ibis
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Australian Wood Duck

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Bar-tailed Godwit
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Beach Stone Curlew

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Black-fronted Dotterel

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Black Swan
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Black-tailed Godwit
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Blue-billed Duck
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Buff-banded Rail
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Caspian Tern

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Cattle Egret
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Chestnut Teal
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Common Bronzewing
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Common Tern

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Crested Tern

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Double-banded Plover
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Dusky Moorhen
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Eastern Curlew
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Eastern Osprey
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Glossy Ibis

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Great Cormorant

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Greater Sandplover
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Great Knot
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Grey-tailed Tattler
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Great Egret

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Grey Teal
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Gull-billed Tern
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Hardhead
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Hoary-headed Grebe

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Hooded Plover

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Hudsonian Godwit
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Intermediate Egret
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Latham's Snipe
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Little Black Cormorant
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Little Penguin

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Pacific Black Duck
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Pacific Golden Plover
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Pacific Gull
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Paradise Shelduck

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Pectoral Sandpiper

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Pied Cormorant
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Pied Oystercatcher

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Pink-eared Duck
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Purple Swamphen
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Red-capped Plover

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Red-kneed Dotterel
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Red Knot

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Red-necked Avocet
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Red-necked Stint
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Royal Spoonbill

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Ruddy Turnstone
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Sacred Kingfisher
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Sanderling
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Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
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Silver Gull

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Sooty Oystercatcher
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Straw-necked Ibis
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Striated Heron
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Swamp Harrier
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Whimbrel

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Whiskered Tern
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Whistling Kite
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White-bellied Sea-Eagle
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White-faced Heron
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White-fronted Chat

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White-fronted Tern
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White-necked Heron
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White-rumped Sandpiper
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White-winged Black Tern
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Wood Duck

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Yellow-billed Spoonbill