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Two painted snipes facing and looking right, brown dirt and sparse reeds surrounding

Australian Painted-Snipe

  • Scientific name Rostratula australis
  • Bird type Waterbirds
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Grey Butcherbird

  • Scientific name Cracticus torquatus
  • Bird type Birdsong, Bush birds, Garden birds, Urban birds
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Yellow-faced Honeyeater sitting atop a branch, background is blurred into a pastel orange. The bird is facing and looking right

Yellow-faced Honeyeater

  • Scientific name Caligavis chrysops
  • Bird type Bush birds, Garden birds, Honeyeaters, Urban birds
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Spotted Quail-thrush on branch, body is facing opposite camera, but head facing and looking left.

Spotted Quail-thrush

  • Scientific name Cinclosoma punctatum
  • Bird type Bush birds
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Buff Banded Rail looking and walking left along the ground

Buff-banded Rail

  • Scientific name Hypotaenidia philippensis
  • Bird type Waterbirds
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bird sitting on mossy log facing left

Australian Logrunner

  • Scientific name Orthonyx temminckii
  • Bird type Small insect eating birds
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Two Curlew Sandpiper on the sand, facing and looking right. Front bird in breeding plumage.

Curlew Sandpiper

  • Scientific name Calidris ferruginea
  • Bird type Shorebirds and waders, Threatened species
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Banded Stilt in the blue water, walking and looking right

Banded Stilt

  • Scientific name Cladorhynchus leucocephalus
  • Bird type Shorebirds and waders
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Eastern curlew in the water about to take flight, facing and looking left, wings outstretched behind its back.

Far Eastern Curlew

  • Scientific name Numenius madagascariensis
  • Bird type Shorebirds and waders, Threatened species
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Silvereye

  • Scientific name Zosterops lateralis
  • Bird type Common birds, Garden birds, Small insect eating birds
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Masked Lapwing

  • Scientific name Vanellus miles
  • Bird type Urban birds
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Hooded Plover

Hooded Plover

  • Scientific name Thinornis cucullatus
  • Bird type Beach-nesting Birds, Threatened species
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