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Wood Sandpiper
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/wood-sandpiper/The Wood Sandpiper is wary and nervous and will burst into flight if disturbed, zig-zagging off and calling loudly, then generall glide gracefully to ground again.
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White-bellied Sea-Eagle
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/white-bellied-sea-eagle/The White-bellied Sea-Eagle has a wingspan of 1.8m - 2m.
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Welcome Swallow
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/welcome-swallow/Welcome Swallows have short bristles at the sides of their mouths which help to guide their food (insects) into their mouths while flying at speed.
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Spotted Pardalote
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/spotted-pardalote/The Spotted Pardalote is sometimes known as the "Headache Bird" because of the continuous "sleep-may-be" call it gives during the breeding season.
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Silver Gull
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/silver-gull/The Silver Gull has become a successful scavenger, readily pestering humans for handouts of scraps, pilfering from unattended food containers or searching for human refuse at tips.
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Royal Spoonbill
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/royal-spoonbill-platalea-regia/The Royal Spoonbill can feed faster and on larger prey than the Yellow-billed Spoonbill, as it has a shorter, broader bill with more papillae (touch receptors) inside the spoon.
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Rockwarbler
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/rockwarbler/Small, dark brown-grey bird, white throat, black tail.
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Restless Flycatcher
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/restless-flycatcher/Medium-sized bird, glossy blue-black head, small crest, white underneath.
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Regent Parrot
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/regent-parrot/Large, slim, mostly yellow, long blue black tail, yellow shoulder patch, red bill.
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Red-whiskered Bulbul
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/red-whiskered-bulbul-pycnonotus-jocosus/The Red-whiskered Bulbul is a native species of China but was introduced to Australia in the early 1900s.
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Tails from the Coasts
Special exhibition
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Burra
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10am - 4.30pm -
RELICS
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Opens 16 August 2025 -
Minerals
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Open daily