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Musk Duck
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/musk-duck-biziura-lobata/Musk Ducks have legs that are placed far back on the body to help them swim and dive, making them clumsy walkers. So, unlike many other duck species, they are very rarely seen on land, preferring to stay in the water.
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Masked Lapwing
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/masked-lapwing/The Masked Lapwing is notorious for its defence of its nesting site, diving on intruders, or acting like it has a broken wing to lure the intruder away from the nest.
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Magpie Goose
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/magpie-goose/The Magpie Goose differs from most waterbirds in having strongly clawed toes that are only partially webbed.
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Long-billed Corella
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/long-billed-corella/Medium-sized, white stocky body with a distinctive long upper bill and pale grey/blue eye ring.
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Little Wattlebird
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/little-wattlebird-anthochaera-chrysoptera/The Little Wattlebird is the smallest of the wattlebirds.
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Little Pied Cormorant
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/little-pied-cormorant/The Little Pied Cormorant is one of the most common of Australia's waterbirds, occurring on water bodies of almost any size.
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Little Corella
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/little-corella/The scientific name for Little Corella, Cacatua sanguinea, means 'Blood-stained Cockatoo' and refers to the dark pink markings between the eye and the bill.
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House Sparrow
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/house-sparrow/The House Sparrow is an introduced species to Australia that now lives in most of eastern Australia and much of the Northern Territory and South Australia.
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Great Egret
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/great-egret/The Great Egret is the largest of the Australian egrets.
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Golden Whistler
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/golden-whistler/The Golden Whistler belongs to the Family Pachycephalidae, which means 'thick-head' after the group's robust necks and heads. This species is one of Australia's loudest and most beautiful songsters.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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