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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'.

Bourke's Parrot
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Another name for Bourke's Parrot is 'Night Parrot', as it will fly into watering places at night. However it is not to be confused with the real, and extremely rare, Night Parrot, Pezoporus occidentalis.

Yellow Wattlebird
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The Yellow Wattlebird is Australia's largest honeyeater with the very distinctive yellow-orange wattles on the sides of the head.

Splendid Fairy-wren
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The nest of the Splendid Fairy-wren is so small that the female's long tail is bent during incubation.

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