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Birding across the north of Australia in July

10,000 Birds

Red Kangaroos often stood in the middle of the single lane bitumen across the north of Australia and were in no rush to move on. Red Kangaroos. At Karumba on the Gulf of Carpenteria there are several warnings about the saltwater crocodiles present and the warning is also specifically in German and Japanese! Freshwater crocodile.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

10,000 Birds

That presumption may be wrong but I don’t think it matters for the present use of the data.) The largest bird, forming the short bar on the right of the bird histogram, is a swan. There are 200 animals in each sample, and I presume that this is a random subset of the larger sample of over 400 or so in each category.

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