How many bird species in Australia?

["Peter Taylor" <>]

Not sure if anyone has tried to answer any of these questions yet (original 
msg came through as a Notepad attachment) but here's my partial attempt!
Based on the C & B 2008 list that Frank O'Connor put on his website, there 
appear to be 860 species all up listed for Australia + various islands. This 
includes 123 vagrants.
To work out how many species can reasonably be expected on the mainland and 
Tasmania, I deleted the columns for Ashmore Reef, Cocos, Christmas and other 
islands (leaving 807 species) then filtered out the remaining and resultant 
vagrants (105) leaving a total of 702 spp.
I can't see an easy way of calculating totals for breeding residents and 
non-breeding visitors however!
cheers

Peter Taylor
Birding South West
3/13 Young St
Manjimup WA 6258
http://birding-southwest.mysouthwest.com.au