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Eyrean Grasswren
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/ornithology-collection-eyrean-grasswren/The Eyrean Grasswren, Amytornis goyderi, was until the late 1970s known only from specimens collected in 1874 at Macumba River, north-west of Lake Eyre, South Australia.
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Night Parrot
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/ornithology/ornithology-collection-night-parrot/The Night Parrot, Pezoporus occidentalis, is a rather undistinguished looking bird: plump, medium-sized and mottled with yellowish green and dark brown.
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Ornithology
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/natural-science/ornithology/Ornithology is the branch of zoology devoted to studying birds. Around 10,000 species of bird inhabit the world, ranging from tiny hummingbirds up to huge ostriches. The Australian Museum's Ornithology Collection contains a wide cross-section of these fascinating animals.
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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.
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Black-chinned Honeyeater
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/black-chinned-honeyeater/When choosing hair or fur to make its nest the Black-chinned Honeyeater tends to choose pale colours, plucking the white or cream hairs from cattle and horses (and even from a cat), as well as wool from sheep.
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Australian King-Parrot
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/australian-king-parrot/Although King-Parrots appear distinctly red and green to humans, when viewed under ultraviolet light, some feathers on the wings appear with a prominent yellow glow. Many birds have four types of cone in their retina, (compared to only three in humans) and see into the ultraviolet wavelengths.
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Crested Bellbird
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/crested-bellbird/The nests of Crested Bellbirds often have live, hairy caterpillars placed around the rim. It has been suggested that the adults gather them as a food storage for the sitting bird or as a defence for the nest.
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Australian Shelduck
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/australian-shelduck/Unlike other Australian ducks, the Australian Shelduck often flies in long lines or in a 'V' formation.
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White-browed Babbler
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/white-browed-babbler/White-browed Babblers build communal roosting nests of twigs and sticks, usually in dead or partly living trees. They participate in activities such as dust-bathing, preening and feeding as a group.
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Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/scaly-breasted-lorikeet/The Scaly-breasted Lorikeet is the only lorikeet with an all-green head combined with a red beak.
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Bilas: Body Adornment from Papua New Guinea
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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