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Varied Sittella
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/varied-sittella/The feet of the Varied Sittella are small but with very long toes for clinging onto branches. They move in spirals down trees, searching for food, and even hang below branches.
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Wandering Albatross
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/wandering-albatross/The Wandering Albatross is the largest of the albatrosses and is the living bird with the greatest wingspan, measuring almost 3.5 m.
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Western Bowerbird
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/western-bowerbird/Their bowers may be decorated with many things the male finds attractive. The decorations in one bower found near Alice Springs weighed 7.4 kg with 1427 bone fragments, many snail shells, pebbles and bits of glass - and white is right.
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Whimbrel
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/whimbrel/A Whimbrel that was banded in New South Wales was re-captured on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia.
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Whistling Kite
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/whistling-kite/The Whistling Kite is a medium-sized raptor (bird of prey) with a "scruffy" appearance.
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White-winged Black Tern
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/white-winged-black-tern/White-winged Black Terns, along with Black Terns and Whiskered Terns C. hybrida, form a group of smallish terns called marsh terns - they all use vegetated wetlands as habitat.
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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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Wompoo Fruit-Dove
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/wompoo-fruit-dove/The colourful Wompoo Fruit-dove is the largest fruit-dove species in Australia. It can be found along the east coast of Australia and the northern Cape York Peninsula. This species can also occurs in New Guinea.
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Strong-billed Honeyeater
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/strong-billed-honeyeater/Unlike other Melithreptus honeyeaters, the Strong-billed Honeyeater is adapted to foraging for insects on the trunks of trees, moving up and down vertically and ripping at the bark to find food.
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Sodwana Pygmy Seahorse, Hippocampus nalu Short et al, 2020
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/pygmy-seahorse-hippocampus-nalu-short-et-al-2020/Sodwana Pygmy Seahorse, Hippocampus nalu Short et al, 2020
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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