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15 Australian Birds (Episode 4)

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It seems that quite a few zoos keep Tawny Frogmouths. When these birds breed, this can lead to highly cringeworthy announcements, for example from Adelaide Zoo : “We have egg-citing news!” .” I sometimes try this at parties, and indeed it usually works quite well. m, individuals feeding on bread were only 0.25

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Colorful + Devious = Toucans of Costa Rica

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Like crows and jays, they are social, vocal, intelligent, and omnivorous (including eating eggs and nestlings). There were birds to watch but they were the gulls and ducks on the river, the sparrows in the fields, the finches that came to the feeder, the beautiful American Kestrel on the roadside wire. Yes, this bird acts like a jay.

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Collaborative List – February 2018

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Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. Fulvous Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna bicolor. Wandering Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna arcuata. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Muscovy Duck – Cairina moschata. Western Australia.

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Collaborative List – March 2018

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Eastern Spot-billed Duck – Anas zonorhyncha. ???–?????? Blue-billed Duck – Oxyura australis. Musk Duck – Biziura lobata. Wood Duck – Aix sponsa. Tufted Duck – Aythya fuligula. Ferruginous Duck – Aythya nyroca. Maned Duck – Chenonetta jubata. 20 Mar 2018.

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Collaborative list – December 2018

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Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. White-faced Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna viduata. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. West Indian Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna arborea. West Indian Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna arborea. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh.

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Collaborative List – May 2018

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Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. White-faced Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna viduata. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. Fulvous Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna bicolor. Wandering Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna arcuata. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh.

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Collaborative List – October 2018

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Yellow-billed Duck – Anas undulata. Red-billed Duck – Anas erythrorhyncha. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Knob-billed Duck – Sarkidiornis melanotos. Indian Spot-billed Duck – Anas poecilorhyncha.

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