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Grey Shrike-thrush
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/grey-shrike-thrush-colluricincla-harmonica/Grey Shrike-thrush pairs mate for life and maintain breeding territories of up to 10 hectares.
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Fairy Martin
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/fairy-martin/Fairy martins are the most communal of the Australian swallows.
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Eclectus Parrot
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/eclectus-parrot-eclectus-roratus/Eclectus Parrots, Eclectus roratus, are noisy and conspicuous, calling as they fly and screeching loudly when disturbed.
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Crimson Rosella
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/crimson-rosella/Crimson Rosellas are not only red, but can be yellow or orange. Yellow and red birds produce orange offspring.
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Black Snoek, Thyrsitoides marleyi Fowler, 1929
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/black-snoek/Black Snoek, Thyrsitoides marleyi Fowler, 1929
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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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Lightning Beast - Ornithopod dinosaur
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/fulgurotherium-australe/Fulgurotherium australe was a small ornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Australia. Fulgurotherium, known from Lightning Ridge in New South Wales and perhaps from Victoria, was one of the first Australian dinosaurs to be scientifically described.
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Eastern Koel (formerly Common Koel)
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/eastern-koel/The Eastern Koel is a migratory species that arrives in Australia from south-east Asia to breed in spring. Although rarely seen, the Koel is well known to many Australians for its loud, repetitive calls, particularly in the early morning.
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Common Bronzewing
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/common-bronzewing/Bronzewings, like other pigeons, secrete a special milk-like substance from their crop, which is fed to the young chicks.
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