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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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Collared Sparrowhawk
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/collared-sparrowhawk/Collared Sparrowhawks rely on trees or tall shrubs for cover to ambush their prey, darting out to catch small birds. At other times they sit quietly and are very easily overlooked.
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Brown Thornbill
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/brown-thornbill/The Brown Thornbill will respond to humans imitating its calls.
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Brown Falcon
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/brown-falcon/Falcons (Family Falconidae) lack a clutching foot mechanism to catch and kill prey, which characterises eagles, kites and relatives in the Family Accipitridae. Instead, they have powerful hooked bills with specialised 'teeth' and matching notches which can sever neck bones with one bite.
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Black Kite
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/black-kite/The Black Kite is the most abundant raptor (bird of prey) in the world.
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Beach Stone-curlew
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/beach-stone-curlew/Beach Stone-Curlews feed mostly on crabs, hammering them open and sometimes washing them before swallowing.
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Bassian Thrush
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/bassian-thrush/If a Bassian Thrush is disturbed it often runs a short distance and then freezes, relying for defence on the camouflage of its mottled plumage against the leaf-litter of the forest floor.
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