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The Australian white ibis is a fairly large ibis species, around 65–75 cm (26–30 in) long and has a bald black head and neck and a long black downcurved beak, measuring over 16.7 cm (6.6 in) in the male, and under in the female.
This is a list of the wild birds found in Australia including its outlying islands and territories, but excluding the Australian Antarctic Territory.The outlying islands covered include: Christmas, Cocos (Keeling), Ashmore, Torres Strait, Coral Sea, Lord Howe, Norfolk, Macquarie and Heard/McDonald.
Pelicans are large water birds with distinctive pouches under their bills. Like other birds in the order Pelecaniformes, they have four webbed toes. Great white pelican, Pelecanus onocrotalus; Australian pelican, Pelecanus conspicillatus; Pink-backed pelican, Pelecanus rufescens; Spot-billed pelican, Pelecanus philippensis
White-crowned parrot: P. senilis (von Spix, 1824) LC: Central America bordering the Caribbean Sea and the Sierra Madre Oriental White-capped parrot: P. seniloides (Massena and de Souancé, 1854) LC: Andes mountains in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and northern Peru Red-billed parrot: P. sordidus (Linnaeus, 1758) LC
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents
The megapodes are stocky, medium-large, chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet. Their name literally means "large foot" and is a reference to the heavy legs and feet typical of these terrestrial birds. All are browsers, and all but the malleefowl occupy wooded habitats.
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Females have white underbellies and males have a distinctive red gular pouch, which they inflate during the breeding season to attract females. Their wings are long and pointed and can span up to 2.3 metres (7.5 ft), the largest wing area to body weight ratio of any bird. Ascension frigatebird, Fregata aquila (A)