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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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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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Swift Parrot
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/swift-parrot/The Swift Parrot migrates between Tasmania and the Australian mainland each year to breed.
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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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Spotted Harrier
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/spotted-harrier/The Spotted Harrier is a slim bodied raptor with an owl-like facial disc, and long tail.
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Norfolk Island Kaka
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/norfolk-island-kaka/The Norfolk Island Kaka had grey-brown on the crown and nape, with yellow to orange on the cheeks.
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Birds conversation starters
https://australian.museum/learn/teachers/learning/cs-birds/Have you ever danced like a bird? Use our Birds conversation starters for fun suggestions and prompts for how to engage with this exhibition.
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Rituals of Seduction: Birds of Paradise
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/birds-of-paradise/This exhibition featured a selection of the Museum’s collections from the Southern Highlands, Eastern Highlands and Western Highlands, including a variety of human hair wigs, feathered headdress, judge wigs, shells woven aprons and shell forehead ornaments.
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World Migratory Bird Day 2013
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/world-migratory-bird-day-2013/To recognise World Migratory Bird Day Australian Museum Streamwatch volunteers participated in a wetlands day at Bicentennial Park.
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Emperor Bird of Paradise
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/birds-of-paradise/emperor-bird-of-paradise/Emperor Bird of Paradise, Scientific name: Paradisaea guilielmi
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Unfinished Business
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