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Black-chinned Honeyeater
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When choosing hair or fur to make its nest the Black-chinned Honeyeater tends to choose pale colours, plucking the white or cream hairs from cattle and horses (and even from a cat), as well as wool from sheep.

Beautiful Firetail
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When breeding, Beautiful Firetails search for food in pairs. They scuttle around on the ground and are sometimes mistaken for mice as they rustle through the undergrowth.

Bar-tailed Godwit
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Bar-tailed Godwits are the world record holders for non-stop flight: they have been recorded travelling 11,000km from Alaska to New Zealand in only 8 days, flying at an average of more than 50km/h.

Bar-shouldered Dove
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The Bar-shouldered Dove is the common street-bird in Darwin and Cairns and its calls are a well-known part of urban life.

Banded Stilt
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Banded Stilts are highly gregarious, found in small parties to dense flocks sometimes in thousands, mainly on inland saltmarshes.

Australian Wood Duck
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Like other waterbirds, the Australian Wood Duck hatches with a covering of waterproof down and can enter the water almost straight away.

Australasian Gannet
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Australasian Gannets are expert fishers. They only stays under the water for about ten seconds, but the fish is normally swallowed before the bird reaches the surface.

Adelie Penguin
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Like all penguins, Adelie Penguins live at sea for most of the year, swimming underwater with the aid of their flipper-like wings to catch fish.

Snapper, Chrysophrys auratus (Forster, 1801)
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Snapper, Chrysophrys auratus (Forster, 1801)

Stenarcha stenopa (Meyrick, 1886)
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Stenarcha stenopa (Meyrick, 1886)