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This is a list of birds of Victoria, Australia.

Victoria is Australia's second-smallest state but has high biodiversity, with 516 bird species recorded — around 54% of Australia's total of 959 bird species^[1] in just 3% of Australia's land area.^[2]

Birds are present in high concentrations in some areas, including the Western Treatment Plant at Werribee in Melbourne's suburbs, which is a haven for tens of thousands of birds, due to a combination of permanent water, varied landforms and plant species.^[3]

Victoria contains a wider variety of natural habitats than any area of similar size in Australia.^[4] Habitats range from warm temperate rainforest in the far east of the state (East Gippsland), cool temperate rainforest,^[5] heathlands,^[6] mallee (stunted eucalypt) scrubland,^[7] grasslands,^[8] open woodland,^[9] montane forest,^[10] permanent lakes, estuaries, large permanent rivers,^[11] ocean and bay coastline.^[12] 4 million hectares of the state's 23.7 million hectare total land and marine area is protected in National Parks and conservation reserves.^[13]

Key locations

The state of Victoria includes the following 36 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) classified by BirdLife International:^[14]

Anderson Inlet
Australian Alps
Barmah-Millewa
Bendigo Box-Ironbark Region
Bellarine Wetlands
Carrum Wetlands
Cheetham & Altona
Corner Inlet
Discovery Bay to Piccaninnie Ponds
Devilbend Reservoir
Gabo & Tullaberga Islands
Gippsland Lakes
Lake Corangamite Complex
Lawrence Rocks
Little Desert
Lower Brodribb River
Maryborough-Dunolly Box-Ironbark Region
Murray-Sunset, Hattah-Kulkyne & Annuello
Nadgee to Mallacoota Inlet
Natimuk-Douglas Wetlands
North Victorian Wetlands
Otway Range
Patho Plains
Phillip Island
Port Fairy to Warrnambool
Puckapunyal
Rushworth Box-Ironbark Region
St Arnaud Box-Ironbark Region
Swan Bay & Port Phillip Bay Islands
Wandown
Warby-Chiltern Box-Ironbark Region
Werribee & Avalon
Western Port
Wilsons Promontory Islands
Wyperfeld, Big Desert & Ngarkat
Yambuk

Several sites in Victoria have been listed amongst Australia's top ten birdwatching locations including:

Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, 40 km west of Melbourne^[15]^[16]^[17]
Mallacoota, East Gippsland, 513 km east of Melbourne^[15]^[16]
Dandenong Ranges 40 km east of Melbourne^[18]
Chiltern 290 km northeast of Melbourne^[15]^[17]^[18]
Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, Mallee (Victoria) 495 km northwest of Melbourne^[15]^[17]

The following Victorian sites have been listed amongst Australia's top 100 birdwatching locations:

Banyule Flats Reserve, Banyule, 20 km northeast of Melbourne^[15]
Phillip Island, South Gippsland, 142 km southeast of Melbourne^[15]
Gipsy Point, East Gippsland, 500 km east of Melbourne^[15]
You Yangs Regional Park, 60 km west of Melbourne^[15]
Port Fairy Pelagic, Port Fairy 288 km west of Melbourne^[15]
Bunyip State Park, West Gippsland, 86 km east of Melbourne^[15]
Serendip Sanctuary, 60 km west of Melbourne^[15]
Cabbage Tree Creek Nature Conservation Reserve, East Gippsland 408 km east of Melbourne^[15]
Tarra-Bulga National Park, South Gippsland, 193 km southeast of Melbourne^[15]
Little Desert National Park 373 km northwest of Melbourne^[15]
Wilsons Promontory National Park, South Gippsland, 213 km southeast of Melbourne^[15]
Sale Common Nature Conservation Reserve, Sale, East Gippsland 216 km southeast of Melbourne^[15]
Bronzewing Flora & Fauna Reserve, Ouyen Mallee (Victoria), 425 km northwest of Melbourne^[15]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne 53 km southeast of Melbourne^[15]