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Striated Heron
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/striated-heron/

The Striated Heron is a small, squat water bird with short legs, a black crown and a small, drooping crest.

Striated Thornbill
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/striated-thornbill/

The Striated Thornbill is a medium-sized thornbill with greenish upperparts, an orange-brown cap, streaked distinctively with white and off-white to cream underparts, heavily streaked on chin, throat and breast.

Tasmanian Thornbill
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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.

Black Swan
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/black-swan/

The Black Swan is the only entirely black-coloured swan in the world.

Modern birds
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It is clear to us today what is a bird and what is not - as feathers make it difficult to confuse them with any other living animal. Many other features – such as wishbones and specialised joints in the wings – are also unique. We place birds in a major group called Aves.

Flexiraptor
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/flexiraptor/

Flexiraptor was a long-legged bird of prey that hunted and ate small and medium-sized animals such as possums or other mammals, lizards or baby birds.