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Channel-billed Cuckoo
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/channel-billed-cuckoo/The Channel-billed Cuckoo is the largest parasitic cuckoo in the world.
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Yellow Wattlebird
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/yellow-wattlebird/The Yellow Wattlebird is Australia's largest honeyeater with the very distinctive yellow-orange wattles on the sides of the head.
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Bourke's Parrot
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/bourkes-parrot/Another name for Bourke's Parrot is 'Night Parrot', as it will fly into watering places at night. However it is not to be confused with the real, and extremely rare, Night Parrot, Pezoporus occidentalis.
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Bell Miner
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/bell-miner/Bell Miners are strongly associated with psyllid (tiny insects that feed on leaves) infestations in gum trees Eucalyptus (causing the disease called 'dieback') and may even actively farm psyllids as a food source.
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Flexiraptor
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/flexiraptor/Flexiraptor was a long-legged bird of prey that hunted and ate small and medium-sized animals such as possums or other mammals, lizards or baby birds.
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Little hope of rescue for an endangered bird population in Sydney
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-little-hope-of-rescue-bird/An endangered population of White-fronted Chats now appears to be isolated from all others.
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Australian King-Parrot
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/australian-king-parrot/Although King-Parrots appear distinctly red and green to humans, when viewed under ultraviolet light, some feathers on the wings appear with a prominent yellow glow. Many birds have four types of cone in their retina, (compared to only three in humans) and see into the ultraviolet wavelengths.
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Crested Bellbird
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/crested-bellbird/The nests of Crested Bellbirds often have live, hairy caterpillars placed around the rim. It has been suggested that the adults gather them as a food storage for the sitting bird or as a defence for the nest.
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Splendid Fairy-wren
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/splendid-fairy-wren/The nest of the Splendid Fairy-wren is so small that the female's long tail is bent during incubation.
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Southern Emu-wren
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/southern-emu-wren/The emu-wrens are named for their six wispy, emu-like tail feathers.
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