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Flexiraptor
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/flexiraptor/Flexiraptor was a long-legged bird of prey that hunted and ate small and medium-sized animals such as possums or other mammals, lizards or baby birds.
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Little hope of rescue for an endangered bird population in Sydney
https://australian.museum/learn/news/blog/amri-little-hope-of-rescue-bird/An endangered population of White-fronted Chats now appears to be isolated from all others.
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Bourke's Parrot
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/bourkes-parrot/Another name for Bourke's Parrot is 'Night Parrot', as it will fly into watering places at night. However it is not to be confused with the real, and extremely rare, Night Parrot, Pezoporus occidentalis.
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Bell Miner
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/bell-miner/Bell Miners are strongly associated with psyllid (tiny insects that feed on leaves) infestations in gum trees Eucalyptus (causing the disease called 'dieback') and may even actively farm psyllids as a food source.
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Channel-billed Cuckoo
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/channel-billed-cuckoo/The Channel-billed Cuckoo is the largest parasitic cuckoo in the world.
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Yellow Wattlebird
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/yellow-wattlebird/The Yellow Wattlebird is Australia's largest honeyeater with the very distinctive yellow-orange wattles on the sides of the head.
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Striated Heron
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/striated-heron/The Striated Heron is a small, squat water bird with short legs, a black crown and a small, drooping crest.
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Striated Thornbill
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/striated-thornbill/The Striated Thornbill is a medium-sized thornbill with greenish upperparts, an orange-brown cap, streaked distinctively with white and off-white to cream underparts, heavily streaked on chin, throat and breast.
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Tasmanian Thornbill
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/tasmanian-thornbill/Reverend Thomas J. Ewing (d.1876) for whom this bird is named was the headmaster of the Queen's Orphan Schools, Tasmania. John Gould (who first described the bird) stayed with Rev. Ewing during his visit to Tasmania in 1838-39.
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Finding dead birds
https://australian.museum/learn/collections/donations/finding-dead-birds/The Australian Museum welcomes donations by the public of birds found dead. This is a major source of specimen acquisition by the Museum.
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Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs
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