Table of Contents
237 relations: Aboriginal Australians, Acacia, Acacia aneura, Adelaide, Adornment, Africa, Alkalosis, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Annual Reviews (publisher), Anti-inflammatory, Antioxidant, Arrernte people, Arthritis, Arthur Phillip, Australia, Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology, Australian Academy of Science, Australian Light Horse, Basal metabolic rate, Beetle, Biological pest control, Bipedalism, Bird feet and legs, Bird of prey, Birds of Australia, Bleach, Bleeding, Bogong moth, Boomerang, Bounty (reward), Bronchus, Brood parasitism, Brood patch, Bush medicine, Bustard, Cactoblastis cactorum, Calcite, Cameo (carving), Camouflage, Carbon dioxide, Carotenoid, Cassia (genus), Cassowary, Casuariidae, Casuariiformes, Casuarina, Chandler, Western Australia, Cladogram, Coalsack Nebula, Coat of arms of Australia, ... Expand index (187 more) »
- Domesticated birds
- Dromaius
- Emus
- National symbols of Australia
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.
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Acacia
Acacia, commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae.
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Acacia aneura
Acacia aneura, commonly known as mulga or true mulga, is a shrub or small tree native to arid outback areas of Australia. Emu and Acacia aneura are Bushfood.
Adelaide
Adelaide (Tarntanya) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.
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Adornment
An adornment is generally an accessory or ornament worn to enhance the beauty or status of the wearer.
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
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Alkalosis
Alkalosis is the result of a process reducing hydrogen ion concentration of arterial blood plasma (alkalemia).
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences is an annual peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Annual Reviews, which broadly covers Earth and planetary sciences, including geology, atmospheric sciences, climate, geophysics, environmental science, geological hazards, geodynamics, planet formation, and solar system origins.
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Annual Reviews (publisher)
Annual Reviews is an independent, non-profit academic publishing company based in San Mateo, California.
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Anti-inflammatory
Anti-inflammatory or antiphlogistic is the property of a substance or treatment that reduces inflammation or swelling.
Antioxidant
Antioxidants are compounds that inhibit oxidation (usually occurring as autoxidation), a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals.
Arrernte people
The Arrernte people, sometimes referred to as the Aranda, Arunta or Arrarnta, are a group of Aboriginal Australian peoples who live in the Arrernte lands, at Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and surrounding areas of the Central Australia region of the Northern Territory. Many still speak one of the various Arrernte dialects.
Arthritis
Arthritis is a term often used to mean any disorder that affects joints.
Arthur Phillip
Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a British Royal Navy officer who served as the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology
Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology is the sacred spirituality represented in the stories performed by Aboriginal Australians within each of the language groups across Australia in their ceremonies.
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Australian Academy of Science
The Australian Academy of Science was founded in 1954 by a group of distinguished Australians, including Australian Fellows of the Royal Society of London.
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Australian Light Horse
Australian Light Horse were mounted troops with characteristics of both cavalry and mounted infantry, who served in the Second Boer War and World War I. During the inter-war years, a number of regiments were raised as part of Australia's part-time military force.
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Basal metabolic rate
Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate of energy expenditure per unit time by endothermic animals at rest.
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Beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Holometabola.
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Biological pest control
Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites, weeds, or pathogens affecting animals or plants by using other organisms.
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Bipedalism
Bipedalism is a form of terrestrial locomotion where an animal moves by means of its two rear (or lower) limbs or legs.
Bird feet and legs
The anatomy of bird legs and feet is diverse, encompassing many accommodations to perform a wide variety of functions.
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Bird of prey
Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals, reptiles and other smaller birds).
Birds of Australia
Australia and its offshore islands and territories have 898 recorded bird species as of 2014.
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Bleach
Bleach is the generic name for any chemical product that is used industrially or domestically to remove colour (whitening) from fabric or fiber (in a process called bleaching) or to disinfect after cleaning.
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Bleeding
Bleeding, hemorrhage, haemorrhage or blood loss is blood escaping from the circulatory system from damaged blood vessels.
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Bogong moth
The bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) is a temperate species of night-flying moth, notable for its biannual long-distance seasonal migrations towards and from the Australian Alps, similar to the diurnal monarch butterfly. Emu and bogong moth are Bushfood.
Boomerang
A boomerang is a thrown tool typically constructed with airfoil sections and designed to spin about an axis perpendicular to the direction of its flight. Emu and boomerang are national symbols of Australia.
Bounty (reward)
A bounty is a payment or reward of money to locate, capture or kill an outlaw or a wanted person.
Bronchus
A bronchus (bronchi) is a passage or airway in the lower respiratory tract that conducts air into the lungs.
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Brood parasitism
Brood parasitism is a subclass of parasitism and phenomenon and behavioural pattern of certain animals, brood parasites, that rely on others to raise their young.
Brood patch
A brood patch, also known as an incubation patch, is a patch of featherless skin on the underside of birds during the nesting season.
Bush medicine
Bush medicine comprises traditional medicines used by Indigenous Australians, being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Bustard
Bustards, including floricans and korhaans, are large, terrestrial birds living mainly in dry grassland areas and in steppe regions. Emu and Bustard are extant Miocene first appearances.
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Cactoblastis cactorum
Cactoblastis cactorum, the cactus moth, South American cactus moth or nopal moth, is native to Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil.
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Calcite
Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
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Cameo (carving)
Cameo is a method of carving an object such as an engraved gem, item of jewellery or vessel.
Camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else.
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
Carotenoid
Carotenoids are yellow, orange, and red organic pigments that are produced by plants and algae, as well as several bacteria, archaea, and fungi.
Cassia (genus)
Cassia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, and the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. Species are known commonly as cassias. The genus includes 37 species and has a pantropical distribution. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 14 August 2023. Species of the genera Senna and Chamaecrista were previously included in Cassia.
Cassowary
Cassowaries (muruk, kasuari, Biak: man suar, Papuan: kasu weri) are flightless birds of the genus Casuarius in the order Casuariiformes. Emu and Cassowary are flightless birds.
Casuariidae
The bird family Casuariidae has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary and the emu. Emu and Casuariidae are flightless birds.
Casuariiformes
The Casuariiformes is an order of large flightless birds that has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary, and the only remaining species of emu. Emu and Casuariiformes are extant Miocene first appearances and flightless birds.
Casuarina
Casuarina, also known as she-oak, Australian pine and native pine, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Casuarinaceae, and is native to Australia, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, islands of the western Pacific Ocean, and eastern Africa.
Chandler, Western Australia
Chandler is a rural locality between Merredin and Mukinbudin in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.
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Cladogram
A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.
Coalsack Nebula
The Coalsack Nebula (Southern Coalsack, or simply the Coalsack) is a dark nebula, which is visible to the naked eye as a dark patch obscuring part of the Milky Way east of Acrux (Alpha Crucis) in the constellation of Crux.
Coat of arms of Australia
The coat of arms of Australia, officially the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, is a formal symbol of the Commonwealth of Australia. Emu and coat of arms of Australia are national symbols of Australia.
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Coccidia
Coccidia (Coccidiasina) are a subclass of microscopic, spore-forming, single-celled obligate intracellular parasites belonging to the apicomplexan class Conoidasida.
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Coccinellidae
Coccinellidae is a widespread family of small beetles.
Cockroach
Cockroaches (or roaches) are insects belonging to the order Blattodea (Blattaria). About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats. Some species are well-known pests. The cockroaches are an ancient group, with their ancestors, known as "roachoids", originating during the Carboniferous period, some 320 million years ago.
Coin
A coin is a small object, usually round and flat, used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender.
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Coins of the Australian dollar
The coins of the Australian dollar were introduced on 14 February 1966, although they did not at that time include the one-dollar or two-dollar coins.
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Common ostrich
The common ostrich (Struthio camelus), or simply ostrich, is a species of flightless bird native to certain large areas of Africa. Emu and common ostrich are domesticated birds, extant Miocene first appearances and flightless birds.
Computer-generated imagery
Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is a specific-technology or application of computer graphics for creating or improving images in art, printed media, simulators, videos and video games.
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Coolamon (vessel)
Coolamon is an anglicised version of the Wiradjuric word guliman used to describe an Australian Aboriginal carrying vessel.
Craft
A craft or trade is a pastime or an occupation that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work.
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Creation myth
A creation myth or cosmogonic myth is a type of cosmogony, a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it.
Cricket (insect)
Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers.
Crux
Crux is a constellation of the southern sky that is centred on four bright stars in a cross-shaped asterism commonly known as the Southern Cross. Emu and Crux are national symbols of Australia.
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Culling
Culling is the process of segregating organisms from a group according to desired or undesired characteristics.
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Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976
The Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 (c. 38) is a law of the United Kingdom that was originally enacted to deal with the increasing fashion of people in the late-1960s and early-1970s keeping interesting pets which were often from the more dangerous species, as well as hybrids between wild and domestic species, such as wolfdogs and Bengal cats.
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Dasyuromorphia
Dasyuromorphia (meaning "hairy tail" in Greek) is an order comprising most of the Australian carnivorous marsupials, including quolls, dunnarts, the numbat, the Tasmanian devil, and the extinct thylacine.
Dharug
The Dharug or Darug people, are an Aboriginal Australian people, who share strong ties of kinship and, in pre-colonial times, lived as skilled hunters in family groups or clans, scattered throughout much of what is modern-day Sydney.
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Diarrhea
Diarrhea (American English), also spelled diarrhoea or diarrhœa (British English), is the condition of having at least three loose, liquid, or watery bowel movements in a day.
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Dietary supplement
A dietary supplement is a manufactured product intended to supplement a person's diet by taking a pill, capsule, tablet, powder, or liquid.
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Dingo
The dingo (either included in the species Canis familiaris, or considered one of the following independent taxa: Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo) is an ancient (basal) lineage of dog found in Australia.
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Diurnality
Diurnality is a form of plant and animal behavior characterized by activity during daytime, with a period of sleeping or other inactivity at night.
Djadjawurrung language
Djadjawurrung (also Jaara, Ngurai-illam-wurrung) is an Aboriginal Australian language spoken by the Dja Dja Wurrung people of the Kulin nation of central Victoria.
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Dromaius
Dromaius (from greek δρομαίυς "runner") is a genus of ratite present in Australia. Emu and Dromaius are extant Miocene first appearances and flightless birds.
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Duboisia hopwoodii
Duboisia hopwoodii is a shrub native to the arid interior region of Australia.
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Dudley Le Souef
William Henry Dudley Le Souef (28 September 1856 – 6 September 1923) was a founding member and founding Secretary of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1901, also serving as President of that body 1907–1909.
Edward Blyth
Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta.
Egg
An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.
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Egg incubation
Egg incubation is the process by which an egg, of oviparous (egg-laying) animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release.
Egg predation
Egg predation or ovivory is a feeding strategy in many groups of animals (ovivores) in which they consume eggs.
Egg white
Egg white is the clear liquid (also called the albumen or the glair/glaire) contained within an egg.
Elephant bird
Elephant birds are extinct flightless birds belonging to the order Aepyornithiformes that were native to the island of Madagascar.
Emperor penguin
The emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) is the tallest and heaviest of all living penguin species and is endemic to Antarctica.
Emu (beer)
Emu is a beer brand name now owned by Lion.
Emu (journal)
Emu, subtitled Austral Ornithology, is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of BirdLife Australia (formerly the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union).
Emu (puppet)
Emu is a four-year-old puppet emu which was given to British entertainer Rod Hull in the 1960s while he was presenting a children's breakfast television programme in Australia. Emu and emu (puppet) are emus.
Emu oil
Emu oil is an oil derived from body fat harvested from certain subspecies of the emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae, a flightless bird indigenous to Australia. Emu and emu oil are emus.
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Emu War
The Emu War (or Great Emu War) was a nuisance wildlife management military operation undertaken in Australia over the later part of 1932 to address public concern over the number of emus said to be destroying crops in the Campion district within the Wheatbelt of Western Australia. Emu and emu War are Dromaius and emus.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and culturally significant places.
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Eora
The Eora (also Yura) are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales.
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Etiology
Etiology (alternatively spelled aetiology or ætiology) is the study of causation or origination.
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Etymology
Etymology (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the scientific study of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.
Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Eucalyptus camaldulensis, commonly known as the river red gum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to Australia.
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Evaporation
Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase.
Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.
Fatty acid
In chemistry, particularly in biochemistry, a fatty acid is a carboxylic acid with an aliphatic chain, which is either saturated or unsaturated.
Fauna of Australia
The fauna of Australia consists of a large variety of animals; some 46% of birds, 69% of mammals, 94% of amphibians, and 93% of reptiles that inhabit the continent are endemic to it.
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Feather
Feathers are epidermal growths that form a distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on both avian (bird) and some non-avian dinosaurs and other archosaurs.
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Federation of Australia
The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia (which also governed what is now the Northern Territory), and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.
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Flavones
Flavones (from Latin flavus "yellow") are a class of flavonoids based on the backbone of 2-phenylchromen-4-one (2-phenyl-1-benzopyran-4-one) (as shown in the first image of this article).
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Flightless bird
Flightless birds have, through evolution, lost the ability to fly. Emu and Flightless bird are flightless birds.
Fly
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wing".
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Food and Drug Administration
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Fresh water
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.
Gamilaraay language
The Gamilaraay or Kamilaroi language is a Pama–Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup found mostly in south-eastern Australia.
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Gapeworm
A gapeworm (Syngamus trachea), also known as a red worm and forked worm, is a parasitic nematode worm that infects the tracheas of certain birds.
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Gastrocnemius muscle
The gastrocnemius muscle (plural gastrocnemii) is a superficial two-headed muscle that is in the back part of the lower leg of humans.
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Gastrolith
A gastrolith, also called a stomach stone or gizzard stone, is a rock held inside a gastrointestinal tract.
Gazetteer of Australia
The Gazetteer of Australia is an index or dictionary of the location and spelling of geographical names across Australia.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
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Gizzard
The gizzard, also referred to as the ventriculus, gastric mill, and gigerium, is an organ found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs (birds and other dinosaurs, crocodiles, alligators, pterosaurs), earthworms, some gastropods, some fish, and some crustaceans.
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Grasshopper
Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera.
Gregory Mathews
Gregory Macalister Mathews CBE FRSE FZS FLS (10 September 1876 – 27 March 1949) was an Australian-born amateur ornithologist who spent most of his later life in England.
Gunaikurnai language
The Gunaikurnai or Gunai/Kurnai language, also spelt Gunnai, Kurnai, Ganai, Gaanay, or Kurnay) is an Australian Aboriginal dialect cluster of the Gunaikurnai people in Gippsland in south-east Victoria. Bidawal was either a divergent dialect or a closely related language.
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Habitat fragmentation
Habitat fragmentation describes the emergence of discontinuities (fragmentation) in an organism's preferred environment (habitat), causing population fragmentation and ecosystem decay.
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Hair follicle
The hair follicle is an organ found in mammalian skin.
Handbook of the Birds of the World
The Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) is a multi-volume series produced by the Spanish publishing house Lynx Edicions in partnership with BirdLife International.
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Heliothis
Heliothis is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae.
History of Australia (1788–1850)
The history of Australia from 1788 to 1850 covers the early British colonial period of Australia's history.
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Homeothermy
Homeothermy, homothermy or homoiothermy is thermoregulation that maintains a stable internal body temperature regardless of external influence.
Insular dwarfism
Insular dwarfism, a form of phyletic dwarfism, is the process and condition of large animals evolving or having a reduced body size when their population's range is limited to a small environment, primarily islands.
International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Invasive species
An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.
J. M. Wendt
Joachim Matthias "J.
Jardwadjali
The Jardwadjali (Yartwatjali), also known as the Jaadwa, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of Victoria, whose traditional lands occupy the lands in the upper Wimmera River watershed east to Gariwerd (Grampians) and west to Lake Bringalbert.
John Gould
John Gould (14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881) was an English ornithologist who published monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists, including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart.
John Latham (ornithologist)
John Latham (27 June 1740 – 4 February 1837) was an English physician, naturalist and author.
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Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (lit. ' Island of the Dead' in the language of the Kaurna people), is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island.
Kangaroo Island emu
The Kangaroo Island emu or dwarf emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae baudinianus) is an extinct subspecies of emu. Emu and Kangaroo Island emu are Dromaius and emus.
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Kaurna
The Kaurna people (also Coorna, Kaura, Gaurna and other variations) are a group of Aboriginal people whose traditional lands include the Adelaide Plains of South Australia.
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Kaurna language
Kaurna is a Pama-Nyungan language historically spoken by the Kaurna peoples of the Adelaide Plains of South Australia.
King Island (Tasmania)
King Island is an island in the Bass Strait, belonging to the Australian state of Tasmania.
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King Island emu
The King Island emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae minor) is an extinct subspecies of emu that was endemic to King Island, in the Bass Strait between mainland Australia and Tasmania. Emu and King Island emu are Dromaius and emus.
Kitchen utensil
A kitchen utensil is a small hand-held tool used for food preparation.
Kiwi (bird)
Kiwi are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the order Apterygiformes. Emu and Kiwi (bird) are extant Miocene first appearances and flightless birds.
Kurdaitcha
A kurdaitcha, or kurdaitcha man, also spelt gadaidja, cadiche, kadaitcha, karadji, or kaditcha (Arrernte orthography: kwertatye), is a type of shaman and traditional executioner amongst the Arrernte people, an Aboriginal group in Central Australia.
Least-concern species
A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild.
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Leather
Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay.
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Liberty Mutual
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company is an American diversified global insurer and the sixth-largest property and casualty insurer in the world.
Linoleic acid
Linoleic acid (LA) is an organic compound with the formula.
List of national birds
This is a list of national birds, including official birds of overseas territories and other states described as nations.
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Louis Pierre Vieillot
Louis Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 24 August 1830, Sotteville-lès-Rouen) was a French ornithologist.
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Lubricant
A lubricant (sometimes shortened to lube) is a substance that helps to reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact, which ultimately reduces the heat generated when the surfaces move.
Luteinizing hormone
Luteinizing hormone (LH, also known as luteinising hormone, lutropin and sometimes lutrophin) is a hormone produced by gonadotropic cells in the anterior pituitary gland.
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Mainland Australia
Mainland Australia is the main landmass of the Australian continent, excluding the Aru Islands, New Guinea, Tasmania, and other Australian offshore islands.
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Maria Island
Maria Island or wukaluwikiwayna in palawa kani is a mountainous island located in the Tasman Sea, off the east coast of Tasmania, Australia.
Megalania
Megalania (Varanus priscus) is an extinct species of giant monitor lizard, part of the megafaunal assemblage that inhabited Australia during the Pleistocene.
Milky Way
The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.
Millipede
Millipedes (originating from the Latin mille, "thousand", and pes, "foot") are a group of arthropods that are characterised by having two pairs of jointed legs on most body segments; they are known scientifically as the class Diplopoda, the name derived from this feature.
Mimmo Cozzolino
Mimmo (Domenico) Cozzolino is an Australian graphic designer and photo media artist best known for his gently satirical design and research on Australian historic trademarks. Emu and Mimmo Cozzolino are national symbols of Australia.
Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Mite
Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods).
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
Moa
Moa (order Dinornithiformes) are an extinct group of flightless birds formerly endemic to New Zealand.
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Nasal concha
In anatomy, a nasal concha (conchae;; Latin for 'shell'), also called a nasal turbinate or turbinal, is a long, narrow, curled shelf of bone that protrudes into the breathing passage of the nose in humans and various other animals.
National symbols of Australia
National symbols of Australia are the official symbols used to represent Australia as a nation or the Commonwealth Government.
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Nematode
The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.
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Neontology
Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.
New Guinea
New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.
New Holland (Australia)
New Holland (Nieuw-Holland) is a historical European name for mainland Australia.
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New South Wales North Coast
New South Wales North Coast or NSW North Coast, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in New South Wales, data comprising.
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Nictitating membrane
The nictitating membrane (from Latin nictare, to blink) is a transparent or translucent third eyelid present in some animals that can be drawn across the eye from the medial canthus to protect and moisten it while maintaining vision.
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Ochre
Ochre, iron ochre, or ocher in American English, is a natural clay earth pigment, a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand.
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Oleic acid
Oleic acid is a fatty acid that occurs naturally in various animal and vegetable fats and oils.
Omnivore
An omnivore is an animal that has the ability to eat and survive on both plant and animal matter.
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Opuntia
Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers.
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Ostrich
Ostriches are large flightless birds. Emu and Ostrich are extant Miocene first appearances and flightless birds.
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Palaeognathae
Palaeognathae is an infraclass of birds, called paleognaths or palaeognaths, within the class Aves of the clade Archosauria.
Palmitic acid
Palmitic acid (hexadecanoic acid in IUPAC nomenclature) is a fatty acid with a 16-carbon chain.
Parasitism
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
Penny
A penny is a coin (pennies) or a unit of currency (pence) in various countries.
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Perentie
The perentie (Varanus giganteus) is a species of monitor lizard.
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PH
In chemistry, pH, also referred to as acidity or basicity, historically denotes "potential of hydrogen" (or "power of hydrogen").
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Photobombing
Photobombing is the act of purposely putting oneself into the view of a photograph, often in order to play a practical joke on the photographer or the subjects.
Plumage
Plumage is a layer of feathers that covers a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers.
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Poaceae
Poaceae, also called Gramineae, is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses.
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Port Stephens Council
Port Stephens Council (also known simply as Port Stephens) is a local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.
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Postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail).
Poultry
Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of harvesting animal products such as meat, eggs or feathers. Emu and Poultry are domesticated birds.
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Precociality and altriciality
Precocial species in birds and mammals are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching.
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Protozoa
Protozoa (protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a polyphyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, that feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic debris.
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Quail
Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds generally placed in the order Galliformes.
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Rachis
In biology, a rachis (from the ῥάχις, "backbone, spine") is a main axis or "shaft".
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Ratite
A ratite is any of a group of mostly flightless birds within the infraclass Palaeognathae. Emu and ratite are flightless birds.
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Red fox
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus parts of North Africa.
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Red kangaroo
The red kangaroo (Osphranter rufus) is the largest of all kangaroos, the largest terrestrial mammal native to Australia, and the largest extant marsupial.
Red meat
In gastronomy, red meat is commonly red when raw (and a dark color after it is cooked), in contrast to white meat, which is pale in color before (and after) cooking.
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Rhea (bird)
Rheas, also known as ñandus or South American ostrich, are moderately sized South American ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) of the order Rheiformes. Emu and Rhea (bird) are domesticated birds and flightless birds.
Rheidae
Rheidae is a family of flightless ratite birds which first appeared in the Paleocene.
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Roadkill
Roadkill is a wild animal that has been killed by collision with motor vehicles.
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Rod Hull
Rodney Stephen Hull (13 August 1935 – 17 March 1999) was a British comedian and popular entertainer on television in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Rothschild's emu
Rothschild's emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae rothschildi) is a subspecies of the emu that is native to parts of southern Australia, primarily within the states of Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales, although it may have occasionally wandered into other nearby states. Emu and Rothschild's emu are emus.
Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
The Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU), now part of BirdLife Australia, was Australia's largest non-government, non-profit, bird conservation organisation.
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Salem district
Salem District is one of the 38 districts of Tamil Nadu state in southern India.
Santalum acuminatum
Santalum acuminatum, the desert quandong, is a hemiparasitic plant in the sandalwood family, Santalaceae, (Native to Australia) which is widely dispersed throughout the central deserts and southern areas of Australia. Emu and Santalum acuminatum are Bushfood.
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Savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
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Sclerophyll
Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation that is adapted to long periods of dryness and heat.
Scorpius
Scorpius is a zodiac constellation located in the Southern celestial hemisphere, where it sits near the center of the Milky Way, between Libra to the west and Sagittarius to the east.
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Shane A. Parker
Shane Alwyne Parker (3 August 1943 – 21 November 1992) was a British-born museum curator and ornithologist, who emigrated to Australia in 1967 after participating in the second Harold Hall Australian ornithological collecting expedition in 1964.
Somali ostrich
The Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes), also known as the blue-necked ostrich, is a large flightless bird native to the Horn of Africa. Emu and Somali ostrich are flightless birds.
Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
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Species distribution
Species distribution, or species dispersion, is the manner in which a biological taxon is spatially arranged.
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Spider
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk.
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Struthionidae
Struthionidae is a family of flightless birds, containing the extant ostriches and their extinct relatives.
Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.
Superb fairywren
The superb fairywren (Malurus cyaneus) is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae, and is common and familiar across south-eastern Australia. Emu and superb fairywren are endemic birds of Australia.
Swan Brewery
The Swan Brewery is a brewing company, whose high profile brewery was once located beside the Swan River, in Perth, Western Australia.
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.
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Sydney rock engravings
Sydney rock engravings, or Sydney rock art, are a form of Australian Aboriginal rock art in the sandstone around Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, that consist of carefully drawn images of people, animals, or symbols.
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Tallest extant birds
This is a list of the tallest extant birds according to maximum height.
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Tarsus (skeleton)
In the human body, the tarsus (tarsi) is a cluster of seven articulating bones in each foot situated between the lower end of the tibia and the fibula of the lower leg and the metatarsus.
Tasmania
Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.
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Tasmanian emu
The Tasmanian emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae diemenensis) is an extinct subspecies of emu. Emu and Tasmanian emu are Dromaius and emus.
Testicle
A testicle or testis (testes) is the male gonad in all bilaterians, including humans.
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Testosterone
Testosterone is the primary male sex hormone and androgen in males.
The Argus (Melbourne)
The Argus was an Australian daily morning newspaper in Melbourne from 2 June 1846 to 19 January 1957, and was considered to be the general Australian newspaper of record for this period.
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The Dreaming
The Dreaming, also referred to as Dreamtime, is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs.
The Mercury (Hobart)
The Mercury is a daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, by Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp.
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Thermal neutral zone
Endothermic organisms known as homeotherms maintain internal temperatures with minimal metabolic regulation within a range of ambient temperatures called the thermal neutral zone (TNZ).
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Thermoregulation
Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different.
Thylacine
The thylacine (binomial name Thylacinus cynocephalus), also commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, is an extinct carnivorous marsupial that was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea.
Tick
Ticks are parasitic arachnids of the order Ixodida.
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Tinamou
Tinamous are members of the order Tinamiformes, and family Tinamidae, divided into two distinct subfamilies, containing 46 species found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.
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Tjilbruke
Tjilbruke (also Tjirbruki, Tjilbruki, Tjirbruke, Tjirbuk or Tjirbuki) is an important creation ancestor for the Kaurna people of the Adelaide plains in the Australian state of South Australia.
Toby Hull
Toby Hull is the son of Rod Hull, a popular entertainer who appeared with an arm-length puppet known as Emu.
Trachea
The trachea (tracheae or tracheas), also known as the windpipe, is a cartilaginous tube that connects the larynx to the bronchi of the lungs, allowing the passage of air, and so is present in almost all animals with lungs.
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Tracheitis
Tracheitis is an inflammation of the trachea.
Trichostrongylus tenuis
Trichostrongylus tenuis, also known as the strongyle worm, is a gut nematode found in the United Kingdom, sensitive to Pyrantel pamoate.
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Triodia (plant)
Triodia is a large genus of hummock grass endemic to Australia. Emu and Triodia (plant) are Bushfood.
Typographical error
A typographical error (often shortened to typo), also called a misprint, is a mistake (such as a spelling or transposition error) made in the typing of printed or electronic material.
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Vestigiality
Vestigiality is the retention, during the process of evolution, of genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of the ancestral function in a given species.
Walgoolan, Western Australia
Walgoolan is a small town located in the eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.
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Wallet
A wallet is a flat case or pouch, often used to carry small personal items such as physical currency, debit cards, and credit cards; identification documents such as driving licence, identification card, club card; photographs, transit pass, business cards and other paper or laminated cards.
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Walter Baldwin Spencer
Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (23 June 1860 – 14 July 1929), commonly referred to as Sir Baldwin Spencer, was a British-Australian evolutionary biologist, anthropologist and ethnologist.
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Wedge-tailed eagle
The wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax) is the largest bird of prey in the continent of Australia. Emu and wedge-tailed eagle are taxa named by John Latham (ornithologist).
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Willem de Vlamingh
Willem Hesselsz de Vlamingh (baptized 28 November 1640 – after 7 August 1702) was a Dutch sea captain who explored the central west coast of New Holland (Australia) in the late 17th century, where he landed in what is now Perth on the Swan River.
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Wing chord (biology)
Wing chord is an anatomical measurement of a bird's wing.
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See also
Domesticated birds
- Australian zebra finch
- Barbary dove
- Cockatiel
- Common ostrich
- Darwin's rhea
- Domestic Muscovy duck
- Domestic canary
- Domestic duck
- Domestic goose
- Domestic guineafowl
- Domestic pigeon
- Domestic pigeons
- Domestic turkey
- Domesticated quail
- Empathy in chickens
- Emu
- Feral chicken
- Feral pigeon
- Gouldian finch
- Greater rhea
- Japanese quail
- Lutino cockatiel
- Muscovy duck
- Pied cockatiel
- Poultry
- Rhea (bird)
- Rock dove
- Society finch
- Star finch
- White-faced cockatiel
Dromaius
Emus
- Emu
- Emu (puppet)
- Emu War
- Emu and the Jabiru
- Emu oil
- Emuarius
- Kalti paarti carving
- Kangaroo Island emu
- King Island emu
- Rothschild's emu
- Tasmanian emu
National symbols of Australia
- Acacia pycnantha
- Advance Australia Fair
- Australian Aboriginal artefacts
- Australian Defence Force Ensign
- Australian Honour Flag
- Australian flag debate
- Australian red ensign
- Australian white ensign
- Boomerang
- Boxing kangaroo
- Coat of arms of Australia
- Commonwealth Star
- Crux
- District tartans of Australia
- Emu
- Eureka Flag
- Flag of Australia
- Flags of Australia
- Great Seal of Australia
- Historical flags of the British Empire and the overseas territories
- Holden
- Kangaroo
- List of countries and territories with the Union Jack displayed on their flag
- Little Boy from Manly
- Mimmo Cozzolino
- National colours of Australia
- National symbols of Australia
- Opal
- Percy Trompf
- Royal Australian Air Force Ensign
- Vegemite
References
Also known as Casuarius australis, Casuarius novaehollandiae, Dromaeus ater, Dromaeus irroratus, Dromaius ater, Dromaius novaehollandae, Dromaius novaehollandiae, Dromaius novaehollandiae ater, Dromaius novaehollandiae novaehollandiae, Dromiceius emu, Dromiceius major, Dromiceius novaehollandiae, Emeu, Emu attacks in Australia, Emu meat, Kaylala, Mainland emu.
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