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Birding the Western Treatment Plant at Werribee

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Most of the trip was taken up with family meals and nights on the town with friends (and suffering a bit in the morning), but I did get away to do some birding in Melbourne’s top birding spot which isn’t so much a dump as the pits. Cape Barren Geese by JJ Harrison ( Creative Commons ). Terrestrial honeyeaters?

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What is a Jackbird?

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There are a few, mostly confined to domestic or game birds that people may be familiar with at all stages of their lives – young pigeons are squabs, ducks are duckings, swans are cygnets, geese are gosling. They may be, but the names haven’t caught on. This adult still has some brown on the neck, but fully developed wattles.