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Native birds of Australia include:

  • emu and southern cassowary, Australia's only Flightless Birds
  • kingfishers, including the distinctive Laughing Kookaburra and Blue-winged Kookaburra
  • budgerigar
  • magpie
  • lyrebird - an amazing bird, the male of which has a tail shaped like a lyre, and which can imitate almost any other sound it hears - even a chainsaw
  • brush turkey and other native fowls
  • friar bird
  • little penguin
  • bowerbird
  • many varieties of lorikeets, rosellas and parrots, including the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Gang-Gang Cockatoo, corella, mulga parrot, Major Mitchell cockatoo and the Galah
  • numerous water-birds, such as moorhens and swamphens, ducks, spoonbills, herons, egrets, ibises and the dancing crane known as the brolga
  • Australia's most well-known native eagle is the Wedge-tailed Eagle. It is considered to be in the same "superspecies" as the Golden Eagle, but has some distinguishing characteristics (especially the shape of the tail).
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