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Victoria’s Riflebird
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/birds-of-paradise/victorias-riflebird/Victoria’s Riflebird, Birds of Paradise
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Paradise Riflebird
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/birds-of-paradise/paradise-riflebird/Paradise Riflebird, Birds of Paradise
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Wahnes’ Parotia
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/birds-of-paradise/wahnes-parotia/Wahnes’ Parotia, Birds of Paradise
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Eastern Parotia
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/birds-of-paradise/eastern-parotia/Eastern Parotia, Birds of Paradise
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Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/red-tailed-black-cockatoo-calyptorhynchus-banksii/This is the first cockatoo to be illustrated by Sydney Parkinson, Joseph Banks' draughtsman on the Endeavour, while the Endeavour was being repaired in the Endeavour River.
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Powerful Owl
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/powerful-owl/The Powerful Owl is Australia's largest owl.
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Laughing Kookaburra
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/laughing-kookaburra/The Laughing Kookaburra is not really laughing when it makes its familiar call. The cackle of the Laughing Kookaburra is actually a territorial call to warn other birds to stay away.
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Emu
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/emu/The name 'emu' is not an Aboriginal word. It may have been derived from an Arabic word for large bird and later adopted by early Portuguese explorers and applied to cassowaries in eastern Indonesia. The term was then transferred to the Emu by early European explorers to Australia.
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Bush Stone-curlew
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/bush-stone-curlew/Bush Stone-curlews were formerly found in the fertile, shale-soiled areas of Sydney - the Cumberland Plain - but are now absent and are listed as threatened in New South Wales because of land clearing practices.
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Budgerigar
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/budgerigar/Since its introduction into captivity, the Budgerigar (or 'budgie') has been bred into a variety of colour forms, including pure white, blue, yellow, mauve, olive and grey. These colour morphs would not survive in the wild.
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