Colourful can mean:
A different colour than brown, black or white
An unusual pattern, like many stripes or dots
A very rare bird, highly endangered and/or endemic on only one island
A very unusual body shape for a bird

• The last three points have to be decided in single cases, only a brown bird with dots is not exotic.
  

~~Albinos are rare and are therefore accepted as exotic~~

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We accept

KEY:
"Y-specific species": We accept only that species.
"OCS" - Accept only colourful species


Anseriformes
Whistling-, Marsh-, Diving-ducks^OCS
Geese^OCS
Swans^{Y - black necked swans}

Apodiformes
Swifts ^OCS
Hummingbirds

Charadriiformes
Stilts^{Y – black ones}
Jacanas
Puffins

Ciconiiformes
Storks^{Y - Jabiru, saddle-billed stork, Storm's Stork, Woolly-necked Stork, Abdim's Stork, Painted Stork, Yellow billded Stork}

Coliiformes
Mousebirds

Columbiformes
Doves^OCS
Pigeons^{Y – crowned pigeons; OCS}

Coraciiformes
Kingfishers
Hornbills
Rollers
Bee-eaters
Todies
Motmots
Hoopoe

Cuculiformes
Turacos
Cuckoos^OCS
Ani

Falconiformes
vultures^{Y – king vultures}
secretary birds
bateleurs

Galliformes ^{All except not colourful ones}
Curassow
Pheasants
Quail
Turkey
Guan
Tragopane


Graviiformes
Cranes^{Y- Crowned Cranes}
Rails^OCS

Pelecaniformes
Ibises
Herons/Bitterns^OCS
Booby^{Y – Blue-footed; Red-footed}
Frigatebirds

Phoenicopteriformes
Flamingo

Piciformes
Woodpeckers^OCS
Toucan

Podicipediformes
Grebes^{Y- great crested Grebe; Eared Grebe; Slavonian grebe; Horned Grebe; Hooded Grebe}

Procellariiformes
Albatros^{Y-Soot-albatross and Light-mantled Albatross}

Psittaciformes
Parrots

• Kea, Kaka
  Cockatiel
  Cockatoos
  Lories and Lorikeet
  Budgerigar
  

Struthioniformes
Kiwi
Cassowary

Trogoniformes
Trogons
Quetzal

Passeriformes - Perching birds

Suborder Tyranni

• Eurylaimides
  
  • broadbills
    asities
    pittas^OCS
    
  
  Tyrannides
  
  • tyrant flycatchers^OCS
    tityras and allies^OCS
    cotingas
    manakins^OCS
    antbirds^OCS
    gnateaters and gnatpittas^OCS
    
  
  

Suborder Passeri

• Basal Passeri
  
  • Lyrebirds
    thornbills ^OCS, and gerygones ^OCS
    
  
  Meliphagoidea
  
  • fairywrens, emu-wrens
    honeyeaters^OCS
    pardalotes
    spinebills
    
  
  Corvoidea
  
  • berrypeckers and longbills
    New Zealand wattlebirds
    Stitchbird
    satinbirds^OCS
    vireos^OCS
    cuckoo-shrikes and trillers^OCS
    whistlers ^OCS
    orioles
    Figbird^OCS
    Tit Berrypecker^OCSand Crested Berrypecker
    bush shrikes, boubous^OCS
    wattle-eyes^OCS
    ioras^OCS
    Bornean Bristlehead
    helmetshrikes and woodshrikes^OCS
    vangas^OCS
    drongos^{Y - racket-tailed drongos}
    monarch flycatchers^OCS
    fantails
    birds of paradise
    shrikes^OCS
    Corvidae
    
    • Treepies^{(Y - all except Black Magpies)}
      All other Jays except grey jays
      Magpies^OCS
      
      
    
    Corvoidea
    
    • White-bellied Erpornis
      whipbirds and allies^OCS
      Shrike-tit and allies
      
    
    
  
  Passeri
  
  • bowerbirds^OCS
    Australian robins^OCS
    rockfowl
    rock-jumpers
    Malaysian Rail-babbler
    kinglets^OCS
    fairy-bluebirds
    leafbirds
    
  
  

Infraorder Passerida

• Sylvioidea
  
  • Bearded Reedling
    larks^OCS
    swallows and martins ^OCS
    pygmy wren-babblers
    warblers^OCS
    longbills
    long-tailed tits or bushtits
    Black-capped Donacobius
    bulbuls ^OCS
    babblers ^OCS
    laughingthrushes and allies ^OCS
    white-eyes and allies
    
    
  
  
  Muscicapoidea
  
  • Old World flycatchers and chats^OCS
    thrushes and allies^OCS
    oxpeckers
    starlings ^OCS
    
  
  Certhioidea
  
  • nuthatches^OCS
    Wallcreeper
    wrens ^OCS
    
    
  
  Passeroidea
  
  • true sparrows^OCS
    wagtails and pipits^OCS
    estrildid finches (waxbills, munias, etc.) ^OCS
    weavers^OCS
    indigobirds and whydahs^OCS
    Olive Warbler
    true finches and Hawaiian honeycreepers^OCS
    grackles
    New World blackbirds^OCS
    New World orioles
    New World warblers^OCS
    tanagers and allies
    cardinals^OCS
    buntings^OCS
    Bananaquit
    
  
  Passerida
  
  • tits, chickadees and titmice ^OCS
    waxwings
    silky flycatchers
    sunbirds^OCS
    flowerpeckers^OCS
    sugarbirds
    
  
  

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We do not accept:

Caprimulgiformes
Nightjars

Charadriiformes
Plovers
Gulls
Avocets
Sandpipers
Oystercatchers


Cuculiformes
Roadrunners

Falconiformes
eagles
condors
buzzards
kites
caracaras
ospreys
harriers
accipiters
falcons
hawks

Galliformes
Not colourful ones

Gaviiformes
Loons

Graviiformes
Limpkins

Pelecaniformes
Pelicans
Tropicbird
Gannets
Cormorants
Anhingas
Darter

Procellariiformes
Petrel


Pteroclidiformes
Sandgrouse

Sphenisciformes
Penguins

Strigiformes
Owls

Struthioniformes
Ostrich
Emu
Rhea
Moa

Tinamiformes
Tinamou

Passeriformes - Perching birds

Suborder Tyranni

• Eurylaimides
  Tyrannides
  
  • ovenbirds and woodcreepers
    antthrushes
    antpitta
    typical tapaculos
    crescent-chests
    
  
  

Suborder Passeri

• Basal Passeri
  
  • Scrub-birds
    scrubwrens
    
  
  Meliphagoidea
  grasswrens
  bristlebirds
  

Corvoidea

• sittellas
  woodswallows, butcherbirds, currawongs and Australian Magpie
  puffback shrikes, bush shrikes, tchagras
  White-winged Chough and Apostlebird
  Corvidae
  
  • Choughs
    Grey Jays
    Piapiac
    Nutcrackers
    True crows
    
    
  
  Corvoidea
  
  • shrike-thrushes
    melampittas
    
  
  

Passeri

• Australian treecreepers
  logrunners and pseudo-babblers
  

Infraorder Passerida

• Sylvioidea
  
  • nicators
    cisticolas and allies
    
  
  
  Muscicapoidea
  
  • dippers
    mockingbirds and thrashers
    
  
  Certhioidea
  
  • treecreepers
    Spotted Creeper
    gnatcatchers
    
    
  
  Passeroidea
  
  • accentors
    Przewalski's Finch
    
  
  Passerida
  
  • penduline tits
    Palmchat
    Hypocolius