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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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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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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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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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Bar-tailed Godwit
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/bar-tailed-godwit/Bar-tailed Godwits are the world record holders for non-stop flight: they have been recorded travelling 11,000km from Alaska to New Zealand in only 8 days, flying at an average of more than 50km/h.
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Willie Wagtail
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/willie-wagtail/The Willie Wagtail is often found in the company of cattle and sheep. They either run behind the moving animal snatching insects as they are disturbed, or sit on the animal's back, darting off to capture a flying insect and then returning to its mobile perch.
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