Fauna of Australia group of endemic parrots, order Psittaciformes. Australian parrots comprise a sixth of the world's parrots, including many cockatoos and galahs. The kookaburra is the largest species of the kingfisher family, known for its call, which sounds uncannily like loud, echoing human laughter. The passerines of Australia, also known as songbirds or perching birds, include wrens, robins, the magpie group, thornbills, pardalotes, the huge honeyeater family, treecreepers, lyrebirds, birds of paradise and bowerbirds. The satin bowerbird has attracted the interest of evolutionary psychologists; it has a complex courtship ritual in which the male creates a bower filled with blue, shiny items
Invasive species of Australian origin coastal wattles, introduced to help bind drifting sand dunes. They remain serious pests, but some controls have been introduced. In the case of "Acacia saligna", the introduction of acacia seed weevils ("Melanterius" species) has achieved complete control. A lesser degree of control has been achieved for "Acacia cyclops" by the introduction of a gall rust fungus ("Uromycladium" species). Invasive species of Australian origin There are a number of Australian species that have become invasive when introduced into outside Australia or outside Oceania. The Australian magpie was introduced into New Zealand and are considered to be a pest because of attacks