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This Week in Bird(ing) News: Orange Is the New Beak, and a Dead Parrot (No Joke!)

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Eurasian Blackbirds living in cities have learned to keep their cool, compared with rural birds. Then you might benefit from a new program training birding guides. The first bird feathers may have been for showiness more than transportation. News Bell Miner Birds Eurasian Blackbird kenya Zebra Finches'

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Ferntree Gully-Dandenong Ranges National Park

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Last Sunday Grant was able to leave work in the afternoon and I had researched options of places we could get to within one hour of the city of Melbourne using public transport that would offer us some birding opportunities. It is incredible how easily a Crimson Rosella can blend into the tall trees despite its red and blue colouring.