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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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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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Striated Heron
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/striated-heron/The Striated Heron is a small, squat water bird with short legs, a black crown and a small, drooping crest.
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Striated Thornbill
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/striated-thornbill/The Striated Thornbill is a medium-sized thornbill with greenish upperparts, an orange-brown cap, streaked distinctively with white and off-white to cream underparts, heavily streaked on chin, throat and breast.
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Tasmanian Thornbill
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/tasmanian-thornbill/Reverend Thomas J. Ewing (d.1876) for whom this bird is named was the headmaster of the Queen's Orphan Schools, Tasmania. John Gould (who first described the bird) stayed with Rev. Ewing during his visit to Tasmania in 1838-39.
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Night Parrot
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/ornithology/ornithology-collection-night-parrot/The Night Parrot, Pezoporus occidentalis, is a rather undistinguished looking bird: plump, medium-sized and mottled with yellowish green and dark brown.
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Eyrean Grasswren
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/ornithology-collection-eyrean-grasswren/The Eyrean Grasswren, Amytornis goyderi, was until the late 1970s known only from specimens collected in 1874 at Macumba River, north-west of Lake Eyre, South Australia.
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Finding dead birds
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/donations/finding-dead-birds/The Australian Museum welcomes donations by the public of birds found dead. This is a major source of specimen acquisition by the Museum.
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Ornithology
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/ornithology/Ornithology is the branch of zoology devoted to studying birds. Around 10,000 species of bird inhabit the world, ranging from tiny hummingbirds up to huge ostriches. The Australian Museum's Ornithology Collection contains a wide cross-section of these fascinating animals.
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Modern birds
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/modern-birds/It is clear to us today what is a bird and what is not - as feathers make it difficult to confuse them with any other living animal. Many other features – such as wishbones and specialised joints in the wings – are also unique. We place birds in a major group called Aves.
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