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Laughing Kookaburra
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/laughing-kookaburra/The Laughing Kookaburra is not really laughing when it makes its familiar call. The cackle of the Laughing Kookaburra is actually a territorial call to warn other birds to stay away.
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Green Catbird
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/green-catbird/Large, stout, green body with white spots, red eyes.
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Great Cormorant
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/great-cormorant/The Great Cormorant is the largest of the Australian cormorants and is one of the largest in the world.
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Gouldian Finch
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/gouldian-finch/The Gouldian Finch is the only grassfinch that nests exclusively in tree hollows or holes in termite mounds.
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Glossy Black-Cockatoo
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/glossy-black-cockatoo/Large dull black body, bulbous bill, red tail panels.
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Galah
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/galah/The name Galah comes from the Yuwaalaraay language word “gilaa”. In Australia, we call people galahs if they are acting silly or do something foolish. The Yuwaalaraay language area extends across north west NSW on the Barwon River into south west Queensland along the Culgoa and Balonne Rivers.
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Freckled Duck
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/freckled-duck/During the breeding season, the male Freckled Duck's bill becomes crimson at the base.
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Flame Robin
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/flame-robin/Flame Robins are the only robins to form flocks in winter.
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Emu
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/emu/The name 'emu' is not an Aboriginal word. It may have been derived from an Arabic word for large bird and later adopted by early Portuguese explorers and applied to cassowaries in eastern Indonesia. The term was then transferred to the Emu by early European explorers to Australia.
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Eastern Whipbird
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/eastern-whipbird/Black head and breast, white patch on side of face, olive-green with a long tail.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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