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White-naped Honeyeater
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/white-naped-honeyeater/The White-naped Honeyeater is a small honeyeater with a short, slender bill. It is endemic to eastern and south-eastern mainland Australia, from northern Queensland to eastern South Australia, with a race in south-western Australia.
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White-necked Heron
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/white-necked-heron/Like other herons, the White-necked Heron has a special hinge mechanism at the sixth vertebra that allows them to rapidly extend their folded neck and so catch unwary prey.
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White-plumed Honeyeater
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/white-plumed-honeyeater/The White-plumed Honeyeater is one of the first birds to call in the morning and the last to call in the evening. It is a medium-sized honeyeater with a slightly down-curved bill and distinctive white neck-plume, giving the bird its name.
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White-throated Gerygone
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/white-throated-gerygone/The White-throated Gerygone is a very small grey brown bird made distinctive with its bright yellow underparts and a white-tipped tail.
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White-throated Treecreeper
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/white-throated-treecreeper/The White-throated Treecreeper is dark brown, with a distinctive white throat and chest, and white streaks on its flanks, edged with black. Its diet consists mainly of ants.
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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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White-winged Chough
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/white-winged-chough/White-winged Choughs live in social clans of about seven to ten individuals and will defend their nest territory during the breeding season with 'wing-waving' displays to deter unwanted intruders.
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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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Yellow Thornbill
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/yellow-thornbill/The Yellow Thornbill is found in open forests, woodlands and shrub lands throughout mainland eastern Australia. The average size is 10cm and it can be identified by its greenish-olive coloured back and white streaked cheeks and ears.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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