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Swift Parrot
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/swift-parrot/The Swift Parrot migrates between Tasmania and the Australian mainland each year to breed.
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Spotted Harrier
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/spotted-harrier/The Spotted Harrier is a slim bodied raptor with an owl-like facial disc, and long tail.
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Norfolk Island Kaka
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/norfolk-island-kaka/The Norfolk Island Kaka had grey-brown on the crown and nape, with yellow to orange on the cheeks.
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First Nations storytelling
https://australian.museum/publications/birds-storybox/first-nations-storytelling/Australia’s birds play many symbolic roles in First Nations cultures. As carriers of story, they teach us how to live in connection with other living beings.
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The Birds of Australia STORYBOX
https://australian.museum/publications/birds-storybox/about/Inspired by the work of John and Elizabeth Gould, The Birds of Australia, showcases a unique digital experience presented on a 3D storytelling cube.
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Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/red-tailed-black-cockatoo-calyptorhynchus-banksii/This is the first cockatoo to be illustrated by Sydney Parkinson, Joseph Banks' draughtsman on the Endeavour, while the Endeavour was being repaired in the Endeavour River.
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Powerful Owl
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/powerful-owl/The Powerful Owl is Australia's largest owl.
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Laughing Kookaburra
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/laughing-kookaburra/The Laughing Kookaburra is not really laughing when it makes its familiar call. The cackle of the Laughing Kookaburra is actually a territorial call to warn other birds to stay away.
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Emu
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/emu/The name 'emu' is not an Aboriginal word. It may have been derived from an Arabic word for large bird and later adopted by early Portuguese explorers and applied to cassowaries in eastern Indonesia. The term was then transferred to the Emu by early European explorers to Australia.
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Budgerigar
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/budgerigar/Since its introduction into captivity, the Budgerigar (or 'budgie') has been bred into a variety of colour forms, including pure white, blue, yellow, mauve, olive and grey. These colour morphs would not survive in the wild.
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