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Barn Owl
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/barn-owl/Subspecies of the Barn Owl are found on every continent in the world except Antarctica.
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Barking Owl
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/barking-owl/The Barking Owl is named for its harsh 'barking' call but can also make a much louder, wailing cry, which has given rise to another name, the 'screaming-woman bird'.
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Banded Lapwing
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/banded-lapwing/The Banded Lapwing uses foot-tapping to disturb insects from cover, running to catch anything that moves.
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Azure Kingfisher
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/azure-kingfisher/The Azure Kingfisher nests in a burrow dug out of a river bank.
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Australian Shelduck
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/australian-shelduck/Unlike other Australian ducks, the Australian Shelduck often flies in long lines or in a 'V' formation.
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Australian Ringneck
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/australian-ringneck/In Western Australia, these parrots are known as Twenty Eights, from the contact call - a whistled 'twen-ty-eight' - of Australian Ringnecks in the forests of the south-west.
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Australian Brush-turkey
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/australian-brush-turkey/Australian Brush-turkey chicks hatch fully feathered and can fly within a few hours.
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Australasian Grebe
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/australasian-grebe/Grebes eat their own feathers and feed them to their young to prevent injury when swallowing fish bones.
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Gulf Gurnard Perch, Neosebastes bougainvillii (Cuvier, 1829)
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/gulf-gurnard-perch-neosebastes-bougainvillii-cuvier-1829/Gulf Gurnard Perch, Neosebastes bougainvillii (Cuvier, 1829)
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Obese Dragonfish, Opostomias micripnus (Günther, 1878)
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/obese-dragonfish-opostomias-micripnus-guumlnther-1878/Obese Dragonfish, Opostomias micripnus (Günther, 1878)
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