Tasmanian
birding and mammal tour
5 to 11 February 2006
Tour leaders: Philip Maher & Trisha Maher
Tour participants: Alison Guthrie, Ron Guthrie, Denise Moore, Rosemary Bell, Colin Officer, Lawna Robart & Don Robart
+ Bill Wakefield (pelagic)
S = species
seen
H = species heard
RK = road kill
February 2006 |
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Blue-billed
Duck Oxyura australis |
c 6
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Musk
Duck |
S
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S
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S
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S
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Black
Swan Cygnus atratus |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Cape Barren
Goose Cereopsis novaehollandiae |
S
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Australian Shelduck
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S
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S
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Australian Wood Duck |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Pacific Black Duck |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Australasian Shoveler
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S
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S
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S
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Grey Teal |
S
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Chestnut Teal |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Hardhead |
S
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S
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S
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Australasian
Grebe Tachybaptus novaehollandiae |
S
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Hoary-headed Grebe
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S
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S
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S
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Great Crested
Grebe Podiceps cristatus |
S
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S
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Little Penguin |
S
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Common Diving-Petrel |
c
6
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Southern Giant-Petrel |
1
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Cape Petrel
Daption capense |
1
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Slender-billed
Prion Pachyptila belcheri |
1
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Fairy Prion
Pachyptila turtur |
6
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White-chinned
Petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis |
c
12
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Grey Petrel
Procellaria cinerea |
1
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Sooty Shearwater
Puffinus griseus |
1
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Short-tailed
Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris |
S
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S
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S
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S
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100s
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Wandering Albatross |
3
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N. Royal
Albatross Diomedea epomophora |
1
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S. Royal Albatross |
1
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Black-browed Albatross |
2
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Shy Albatross |
S
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c
60
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Yellow-nosed Albatross
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c
10
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Buller's Albatross
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c
10
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Wilson's
Storm-Petrel Oceanites oceanicus |
1
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Grey-backed
Storm-Petrel Garrodia nereis |
c
10
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White-faced
Storm-Petrel Pelagodroma marina |
c
6
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Aust Gannet |
S
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S
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S
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100s
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Australian
Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus |
S
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S
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Little Pied Cormorant
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Black-faced Cormorant |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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100s
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Little Black Cormorant
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S
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Great Cormorant |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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White-faced Heron
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Royal Spoonbill
Platelea regia |
1
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White-bellied Sea-Eagle
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S
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S
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Swamp Harrier
Circus approximans |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Brown Goshawk Accipiter fasciatus |
S
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Brown Falcon |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Australian Hobby |
S
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Peregrine
Falcon Falco peregrinus |
S
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S
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Purple
Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio |
S
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Tasmanian
Native-hen |
c
6
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c
20
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c 10
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c
10
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c
20
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c
20
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S
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Eurasian Coot |
c
50
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S
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S
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Bar-tailed
Godwit Limosa lapponica |
S
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S
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Eastern Curlew |
c
23
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c
30
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Common
Greenshank Tringa nebularia |
c 6
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c20
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Red-necked Stint |
S
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S
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S
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Pied Oystercatcher |
S
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S
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S
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S
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Sooty Oystercatcher
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S
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S
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S
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Pacific
Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva |
S
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Red-capped Plover
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S
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S
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Double-banded Plover
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S
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S
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Black-fronted
Dotterel Elseyornis melanops |
S
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S
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Hooded Plover |
S
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S
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Banded
Lapwing Vanellus tricolor |
1
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Masked Lapwing |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Great Skua
Catharacta skua |
1
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Pomarine
Jaeger Stercorarius pomarinus |
1
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Arctic
Jaeger
Stercorarius parasiticus |
1
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Pacific Gull |
S
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S
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S
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S
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Kelp Gull |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Silver Gull |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Crested Tern |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Little
Tern Sterna albifrons |
c10
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Rock Dove |
S
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Common
Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera |
S
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S
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Brush
Bronzewing Phaps elegans |
H
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S
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Yellow-tailed
Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus funereus |
c
6
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Galah Cacatua roseicapilla |
S
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S
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S
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Sulphur-crested
Cockatoo Cacatua galerita |
S
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S
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S
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S
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Musk Lorikeet
Glossopsitta concinna |
S
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S
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Green
Rosella Platycercus caledonicus |
c
20
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c
10
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Eastern
Rosella Platycercus eximius |
S
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Swift Parrot
Lathamus discolor |
c
10
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c 6
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Blue-winged
Parrot Neophema chrysostoma |
S
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Orange-bellied
Parrot Neophema chrysogaster |
Despite
two take-offs, dense cloud prevented the group getting to Melaleuca
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Ground
Parrot Pezoporus wallicus |
S
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Pallid
Cuckoo Cuculus pallidus |
S
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Fan-tailed
Cuckoo Cacomantis flabelliformis |
S
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S
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Shining
Bronze-Cuckoo Chrysococcyx lucidus |
S
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Tawny
Frogmouth Podargus strigoides |
S
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S
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Laughing
Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Superb
Fairy-wren Malurus cyaneus |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Southern
Emu-wren Stipiturus malachurus |
S
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Spotted
Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus |
S
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H
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S
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Forty-spotted
Pardalote Pardalotus quadragintus |
c
3
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c
3
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Striated
Pardalote Pardalotus striatus |
S
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S
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Tasmanian
Scrubwren Sericornis humilis |
c
10
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H
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Scrubtit
Acanthornis magnus |
c
3
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Striated
Fieldwren Calamanthus fuliginosus |
S
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Brown Thornbill
Acanthiza pusilla |
S
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S
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Tasmanian
Thornbill Acanthiza ewingii |
c
6
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Yellow-rumped
Thornbill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa |
S
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S
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S
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Yellow
Wattlebird Anthocaera paradoxa |
2
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H
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H
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6
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S
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S
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S
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Little
Wattlebird Anthocaera chrysoptera |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Noisy Miner
Manorina melanocephala |
S
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S
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S
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S
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Yellow-throated
Honeyeater Lichenostomus flavicollis |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Strong-billed
Honeyeater Melithreptus validirostris |
c
6
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S
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S
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Black-headed
Honeyeater Melithreptus affinis |
c
10
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c
8
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S
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S
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S
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Crescent
Honeyeater Phylidonyris pyrrhoptera |
S
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New Holland
Honeyeater Phylidonyris novaehollandiae |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Eastern
Spinebill Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris |
S
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White-fronted
Chat Epthianura albifrons |
S
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S
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Scarlet
Robin Petroica multicolor |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Flame
Robin Petroica phoenicea |
S
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S
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S
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S
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Pink Robin
Petroica rodinogaster |
S
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S
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Dusky
Robin Melanodryas vittata |
c
5
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c
6
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Olive Whistler
Pachycephala olivacea |
S
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S
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S
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Golden
Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis |
S
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S
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S
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S
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Grey Shrike-thrush
Colluricincla harmonica |
S
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S
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S
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Satin Flycatcher Myiagra cyanoleuc |
S
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S
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S
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Grey Fantail
Rhipidura fuliginosa |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Black-faced
Cuckoo-shrike Coracina novaehollandiae |
S
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S
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S
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S
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Dusky Woodswallow
Artamus cyanopterus |
S
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S
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S
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Grey Butcherbird
Cracticus torquatus |
S
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S
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S
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H
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Australian
Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Black
Currawong Strepera fuliginosa |
S
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S
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Grey Currawong
Strepera versicolor |
S
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S
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Forest
Raven Corvus tasmanicus |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Skylark
Alauda arvensis |
S
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S
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Australasian
Pipit Anthus novaeseelandiae |
S
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S
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House Sparrow
Passer domesticus |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Beautiful
Firetail Stagonopleura bella |
S
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S
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European
Greenfinch Carduelis chloris |
S
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European
Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Welcome
Swallow Hirundo neoxena |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Tree Martin
Hirundo nigricans |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Clamorous
Reed-Warbler Acrocephalus stentoreus |
1
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Silvereye Zosterops lateralis |
S
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S
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S
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S
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H
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S
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Common
Blackbird Turdus merula |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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Common
Starling Sturnus vulgaris |
S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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S
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MAMMALS
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Platypus
Ornithorhynchus anatinus |
1
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Short-beaked
Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus |
1
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1
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1
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Tiger Quoll
(Spot-tailed Quoll) Dasyurus maculatus |
1
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Eastern
Quoll Dasyurus viverrinus |
c
8
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3
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Tasmanian
Devil Sarcophilus harrisii |
2
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Common
Wombat Vombatus ursinus |
1
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1
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Common
Ringtail Possum Pseudocheirus peregrinus |
1
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Common
Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula |
S
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S
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S
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S
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Tasmanian
Bettong Bettongia gainardi |
S
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Red-necked
Wallaby Macropus rufogriseus |
S
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S
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S
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Tasmanian
Pademelon Thylogale billardierii |
c
10
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c
3
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2
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Aust Fur
seal Arctocephaluspusillus doriferus |
c 30
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Bottlenose
Dophin Tursiops truncatus |
2
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FISH
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Blue shark |
1
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REPTILES
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(Black) Tiger Snake |
1
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