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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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Pheasant Coucal
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/pheasant-coucal/The Pheasant Coucal is the only Australian cuckoo to build its own nest. It also lives and nests on the ground, unlike other cuckoos.
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Orange-bellied Parrot
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/orange-bellied-parrot-neophema-chrysogaster/Orange-bellied Parrot, Neophema chrysogaster
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Nankeen Kestrel
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/nankeen-kestrel-falco-cenchroides/Extensive surveys placed the Nankeen Kestrel in the top ten most commonly seen birds; it was recorded in 95% of the survey sites located across the whole of Australia.
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Mallard
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/mallard/The specific name for the Mallard - platyrhynchos - means 'flat billed'. This refers to its classic 'duck' bill, which is adapted for feeding in water, with grooves called lamellae that help to grip vegetation and filter out water.
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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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Green Catbird
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/green-catbird/Large, stout, green body with white spots, red eyes.
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Great Cormorant
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/great-cormorant/The Great Cormorant is the largest of the Australian cormorants and is one of the largest in the world.
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Gouldian Finch
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/gouldian-finch/The Gouldian Finch is the only grassfinch that nests exclusively in tree hollows or holes in termite mounds.
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Glossy Black-Cockatoo
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/glossy-black-cockatoo/Large dull black body, bulbous bill, red tail panels.
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Tails from the Coasts
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Burra
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RELICS
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Opens 16 August 2025 -
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