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Spotted Pardalote
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/spotted-pardalote/The Spotted Pardalote is sometimes known as the "Headache Bird" because of the continuous "sleep-may-be" call it gives during the breeding season.
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Silver Gull
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/silver-gull/The Silver Gull has become a successful scavenger, readily pestering humans for handouts of scraps, pilfering from unattended food containers or searching for human refuse at tips.
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Royal Spoonbill
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/royal-spoonbill-platalea-regia/The Royal Spoonbill can feed faster and on larger prey than the Yellow-billed Spoonbill, as it has a shorter, broader bill with more papillae (touch receptors) inside the spoon.
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Rockwarbler
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/rockwarbler/Small, dark brown-grey bird, white throat, black tail.
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Restless Flycatcher
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/restless-flycatcher/Medium-sized bird, glossy blue-black head, small crest, white underneath.
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Regent Parrot
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/regent-parrot/Large, slim, mostly yellow, long blue black tail, yellow shoulder patch, red bill.
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Red-whiskered Bulbul
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/red-whiskered-bulbul-pycnonotus-jocosus/The Red-whiskered Bulbul is a native species of China but was introduced to Australia in the early 1900s.
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Red-browed Finch
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/red-browed-finch/The Red-browed Finch is one of only a very few small Australian birds that can be attracted to bird feeders.
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Rainbow Bee-eater
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/rainbow-bee-eater-merops-ornatus/The Rainbow Bee-eater rubs bees and wasps against its perch to remove their stings before eating them.
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Pied Currawong
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/pied-currawong/Pied Currawongs are known for their distinctive, loud and ringing calls which can be far-reaching throughout their territories.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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