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94 relations: Bass Strait, Baudin expedition to Australia, Beak, Binomial nomenclature, Biological specificity, BirdLife International, Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Brood patch, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club, Calcaneus, Cassowary, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Christian Jouanin, Conventional wisdom, Crow, Egg incubation, Elephant seal, Empress Joséphine, Emu, Endemism, Enrico Hillyer Giglioli, Extinct Birds, Extinct in the wild, Extinction, Femur, Foramen, Forensic science, Founder effect, François Péron, French corvette Géographe, French corvette Naturaliste, Gene, Genus, George Miksch Sutton, Gregory Mathews, HMS Lady Nelson (1798), Holocene, Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Hunting dog, Insular dwarfism, International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN Red List, James Greenway, Jardin des plantes, Jean-Christophe Balouet, John Gerrard Keulemans, John Latham (ornithologist), John Murray (Australian explorer), Kangaroo, Kangaroo Island, ..., Kangaroo Island emu, King Island (Tasmania), Land bridge, Last Glacial Maximum, Leptecophylla juniperina, Lightning, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Matthew Flinders, Melanism, Mitochondrial DNA, Morphology (biology), Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze, National Museum of Natural History (France), Nicolas Baudin, Nuclear DNA, Osteology, Pelvis, Phenotypic plasticity, Pleistocene, Plumage, Questionnaire, Quoll, Seal hunting, Shane A. Parker, Skull, Subfossil, Subspecies, Tarsometatarsus, Tasmania, Tasmanian emu, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Taxon, Taxonomy (biology), Tibia, Tibiotarsus, Type (biology), Valid name (zoology), Van Diemen's Land, Walter Baldwin Spencer, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Wildfire, William Broderip, William Vincent Legge, World Museum. Expand index (44 more) »
Bass Strait
Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria.
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Baudin expedition to Australia
The Baudin expedition of 1800 to 1803 was a French expedition to map the coast of New Holland (now Australia).
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Beak
The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure of birds that is used for eating and for preening, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food, courtship and feeding young.
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Binomial nomenclature
Binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system") also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.
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Biological specificity
In biology, biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species.
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BirdLife International
BirdLife International (formerly the International Council for Bird Preservation) is a global partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats, and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.
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Birds of the World: Recommended English Names
Birds of the World: Recommended English Names is a paperback book, written by Frank Gill and Minturn Wright on behalf of the International Ornithologists' Union.
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Brood patch
Brood patch of a sand martinA brood patch is a patch of featherless skin that is visible on the underside of birds during the nesting season.
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Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club
The Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club is an ornithological journal published by the British Ornithologists' Club (BOC).
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Calcaneus
In humans, the calcaneus (from the Latin calcaneus or calcaneum, meaning heel) or heel bone is a bone of the tarsus of the foot which constitutes the heel.
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Cassowary
Cassowaries, genus Casuarius, are ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) that are native to the tropical forests of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea and Indonesia), nearby islands, and northeastern Australia.
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Charles Alexandre Lesueur
Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1 January 1778 in Le Havre – 12 December 1846 in Le Havre) was a French naturalist, artist and explorer.
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Christian Jouanin
Christian Jouanin (1925 – 8 November 2014) was a prominent French ornithologist and expert on petrels.
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Conventional wisdom
Conventional wisdom is the body of ideas or explanations generally accepted as true by the public and/or by experts in a field.
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Crow
A Crow is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly is a synonym for all of Corvus.
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Egg incubation
Incubation refers to the process by which certain oviparous (egg-laying) animals hatch their eggs; it also refers to the development of the embryo within the egg.
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Elephant seal
Elephant seals are large, oceangoing earless seals in the genus Mirounga.
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Empress Joséphine
Joséphine de Beauharnais (born Marie-Josèphe-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie; 23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814) was the first wife of Napoleon I, and thus the first Empress of the French as Joséphine.
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Emu
The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the second-largest living bird by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich.
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Enrico Hillyer Giglioli
Enrico Hillyer Giglioli (June 13, 1845 – December 16, 1909) was an Italian zoologist and anthropologist.
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Extinct Birds
Extinct Birds (complete title: Extinct birds. An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those Birds which have become extinct in historical times—that is, within the last six or seven hundred years. To which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction.) is a book by Walter Rothschild which covers globally extinct and rare birds as well as hypothetical extinct species which include bird taxa whose existence is only based on written or oral reports or on paintings.
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Extinct in the wild
An extinct in the wild (EW) species is one which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as only known by living members kept in captivity or as a naturalized population outside its historic range due to massive habitat loss.
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Extinction
In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
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Femur
The femur (pl. femurs or femora) or thigh bone, is the most proximal (closest to the hip joint) bone of the leg in tetrapod vertebrates capable of walking or jumping, such as most land mammals, birds, many reptiles including lizards, and amphibians such as frogs.
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Foramen
In anatomy, a foramen (pl. foramina) is any opening.
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Forensic science
Forensic science is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly—on the criminal side—during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and criminal procedure.
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Founder effect
In population genetics, the founder effect is the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population.
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François Péron
François Auguste Péron (22 August 1775 – 14 December 1810) was a French naturalist and explorer.
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French corvette Géographe
Géographe was a 20-gun ''Serpente'' class corvette of the French Navy.
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French corvette Naturaliste
Naturaliste was one of the two-vessel Salamandre-class of galiotes à bombes of the French Navy.
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Gene
In biology, a gene is a sequence of DNA or RNA that codes for a molecule that has a function.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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George Miksch Sutton
George Miksch Sutton (May 16, 1898, Bethany, Nebraska – December 7, 1982) was an American ornithologist and bird artist.
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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.
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HMS Lady Nelson (1798)
His Majestys Armed Survey Vessel Lady Nelson was commissioned in 1799 to survey the coast of Australia.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
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Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World
The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World is a book by Richard Howard and Alick Moore which presents a list of the bird species of the world.
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Hunting dog
A hunting dog refers to a canine that hunts with or for humans.
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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.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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IUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.
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James Greenway
James Cowan Greenway (7 April 1903 – 10 June 1989) was an American ornithologist.
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Jardin des plantes
The Jardin des plantes (French for 'Garden of the Plants'), also known as the jardin des plantes de Paris when distinguished from other jardins des plantes in other cities, is the main botanical garden in France.
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Jean-Christophe Balouet
Jean-Christophe Balouet (born 12 November 1956) is a French palaeontologist.
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John Gerrard Keulemans
Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (J. G. Keulemans) (8 June 1842 – 29 March 1912) was a Dutch bird illustrator.
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John Latham (ornithologist)
John Latham (27 June 1740 – 4 February 1837) was an English physician, naturalist and author.
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John Murray (Australian explorer)
John Murray (c.1775–c.1807) was a seaman and explorer of Australia.
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Kangaroo
The kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot").
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Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island.
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Kangaroo Island emu
The Kangaroo Island emu or dwarf emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae baudinianus) is an extinct subspecies of emu.
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King Island (Tasmania)
King Island is an island in the Bass Strait, belonging to the Australian state of Tasmania.
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Land bridge
A land bridge, in biogeography, is an isthmus or wider land connection between otherwise separate areas, over which animals and plants are able to cross and colonise new lands.
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Last Glacial Maximum
In the Earth's climate history the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) was the last time period during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension.
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Leptecophylla juniperina
Leptecophylla juniperina is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae.
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Lightning
Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge that occurs typically during a thunderstorm.
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Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot
Louis Pierre Vieillot (May 10, 1748, Yvetot – August 24, 1830, Sotteville-lès-Rouen) was a French ornithologist.
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Matthew Flinders
Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent.
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Melanism
Melanism is a development of the dark-colored pigment melanin in the skin or its appendages and is the opposite of albinism.
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA or mDNA) is the DNA located in mitochondria, cellular organelles within eukaryotic cells that convert chemical energy from food into a form that cells can use, adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Morphology (biology)
Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
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Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze
The Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze is a natural history museum in 6 major collections, located in Florence, Italy.
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National Museum of Natural History (France)
The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a grand établissement of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities.
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Nicolas Baudin
Nicolas Thomas Baudin (17 February 1754 – 16 September 1803) was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer.
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Nuclear DNA
Nuclear DNA, or nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid (nDNA), is the DNA contained within the nucleus of a eukaryotic organism.
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Osteology
Osteology is the scientific study of bones, practiced by osteologists.
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Pelvis
The pelvis (plural pelves or pelvises) is either the lower part of the trunk of the human body between the abdomen and the thighs (sometimes also called pelvic region of the trunk) or the skeleton embedded in it (sometimes also called bony pelvis, or pelvic skeleton).
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Phenotypic plasticity
Phenotypic plasticity refers to some of the changes in an organism's behavior, morphology and physiology in response to a unique environment.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Plumage
Plumage ("feather") refers both to the layer of feathers that cover a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers.
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Questionnaire
A questionnaire is a research instrument consisting of a series of questions (or other types of prompts) for the purpose of gathering information from respondents.
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Quoll
Quolls (genus Dasyurus) are carnivorous marsupials native to mainland Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania.
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Seal hunting
Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals.
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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.
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Skull
The skull is a bony structure that forms the head in vertebrates.
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Subfossil
A subfossil (as opposed to a fossil) is a bone or other part of an organism that has not fully fossilized.
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Subspecies
In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.
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Tarsometatarsus
The tarsometatarsus is a bone that is only found in the lower leg of birds and certain non-avian dinosaurs.
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Tasmania
Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.
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Tasmanian emu
The Tasmanian emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae diemenensis) is an extinct subspecies of the emu.
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Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) is a museum located in Hobart, Tasmania.
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Taxon
In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
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Taxonomy (biology)
Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics.
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Tibia
The tibia (plural tibiae or tibias), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia), and it connects the knee with the ankle bones.
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Tibiotarsus
The tibiotarsus is the large bone between the femur and the tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird.
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Type (biology)
In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached.
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Valid name (zoology)
In zoological nomenclature, the valid name of a taxon is the zoological name that is to be used for that taxon following the rules in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).
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Van Diemen's Land
Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia.
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Walter Baldwin Spencer
Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer (23 June 1860 – 14 July 1929), commonly referred to as W. Baldwin Spencer or Baldwin Spencer, was an English-Australian biologist and anthropologist.
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Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937), was a British banker, politician, zoologist and scion of the Rothschild family.
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Wildfire
A wildfire or wildland fire is a fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or rural area.
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William Broderip
William John Broderip FRS (21 November 1789 – 27 February 1859) was an English lawyer and naturalist.
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William Vincent Legge
Colonel William Vincent Legge (2 September 1841 – 25 March 1918) was an Australian soldier and an ornithologist who documented the birds of Sri Lanka.
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World Museum
World Museum is a large museum in Liverpool, England which has extensive collections covering archaeology, ethnology and the natural and physical sciences.
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Black Emu, Black emu, Casuarius diemenianus, D. n. minor, D. novaehollandiae ater, D. novaehollandiae minor, Dark Emu, Dromaeus minor, Dromaeus parvulus, Dromaius bassi, Dromaius diemenianus, Dromaius minor, Dromaius novaehollandiae minor, Dromaius parvulus, Dromaius peroni, Dromaius spenceri, Dromiceius spenceri, King Island Emu, Peronista peroni.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Island_emu
