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White-browed Babbler
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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.

Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
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The Scaly-breasted Lorikeet is the only lorikeet with an all-green head combined with a red beak.

Bell Miner
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Bell Miners are strongly associated with psyllid (tiny insects that feed on leaves) infestations in gum trees Eucalyptus (causing the disease called 'dieback') and may even actively farm psyllids as a food source.

Masked Owl
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The Masked Owl is Australia's largest Tyto owl.

Beautiful Firetail
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When breeding, Beautiful Firetails search for food in pairs. They scuttle around on the ground and are sometimes mistaken for mice as they rustle through the undergrowth.

Barking Owl
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The Barking Owl is named for its harsh 'barking' call but can also make a much louder, wailing cry, which has given rise to another name, the 'screaming-woman bird'.

Diamond Firetail
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During courtship, the male Diamond Firetail holds a long piece of green grass in his bill, then flies to a branch where he sits near the female and begins to bob up and down. When she approaches, he twists his neck around and opens his bill just like young begging for food.

Cape Barren Goose
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The Cape Barren Goose is able to drink salty or brackish water, allowing many of them to remain on offshore islands all year round.

Black Kite
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The Black Kite is the most abundant raptor (bird of prey) in the world.

Crimson Chat
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When a potential predator approaches the nest of a Crimson Chat, one or both parents will fake an injury on the ground in a distraction display to draw the predator away. It is also known as a 'rodent-run'.