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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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Figbird
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/figbird/The Figbird nests in small, semi-colonial groups, with nests often quite close together.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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