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Diamond Firetail
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/diamond-firetail/During courtship, the male Diamond Firetail holds a long piece of green grass in his bill, then flies to a branch where he sits near the female and begins to bob up and down. When she approaches, he twists his neck around and opens his bill just like young begging for food.
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Crimson Chat
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/crimson-chat/When a potential predator approaches the nest of a Crimson Chat, one or both parents will fake an injury on the ground in a distraction display to draw the predator away. It is also known as a 'rodent-run'.
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Eastern Shrike-tit
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/eastern-shrike-tit/Eastern Shrike-tits may be heard tearing at the bark of trees, looking for insects to eat.
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Dinosaur - Qantassaurus intrepidus
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/qantassaurus-intrepidus/Qantassaurus intrepidus, named after the Australian airline Qantas, was a small ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous of Victoria.
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Common Starling
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/common-starling/Flocks of Common Starlings are often seen at dusk wheeling in large circles as they search for a roosting site for the night.
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Common Sandpiper
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/common-sandpiper/When feeding, the Common Sandpiper will pause to bob its head and teeter. When disturbed it will fly low preferably over water with down-curved, flicking wings. Sometimes it is called 'Bob'.
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Common Myna
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/common-myna/The introduced Common Myna's success is mostly a result of its opportunistic behaviour and aggressiveness towards other species, bullying them around food sources and out competing them for nesting sites.
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Common Blackbird
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/common-blackbird/The Common Blackbird is one of two introduced 'true thrushes' in Australia; the other is the Song Thrush, T. philomelos. The indigenous thrushes are the Bassian, Zoothera lunulata, and the Russet-tailed Thrush, Z. heinei.
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Chestnut Teal
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/chestnut-teal/The Chestnut Teal is found on wetlands and estuaries in coastal regions, and is one of the few ducks able to tolerate high salinity waters, although it still needs fresh water for drinking.
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Cattle Egret
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/cattle-egret/The Cattle Egret sits on the backs of cattle to look out for insects to eat.
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