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Lawes’ Parotia
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/birds-of-paradise/lawes-parotia/Lawes’ Parotia, Birds of Paradise
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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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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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