"and beak make tissues vulnerable to secondary infection. Because the virus also affects the thymus and Bursa of Fabricius, slowing lymphocyte production, immunosuppression occurs and the bird becomes more vulnerable to secondary infections. Beak fractures and necrosis of the hard palate can prevent the bird from eating. The ornithologist Edwin Ashby observed a flock of completely featherless red-rumped parrots (""Psephotus haematonotus"") in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, in 1888. The species then disappeared from the area for several years. The condition is more prevalent in widely occurring Australian species such as the sulphur-crested cockatoo, little corella and galah. The first"
"its range. The term ""galah"" is derived from ""gilaa"", a word found in Yuwaalaraay and neighbouring Aboriginal languages. Galahs are about long and weigh . They have a pale silver to mid-grey back, a pale grey rump, a pink face and chest, and a light pink mobile crest. They have a bone-coloured beak, and the bare skin of the eye rings is carunculated. They have grey legs. The sexes appear similar; however, generally adult birds differ in the colour of the irises; the male has very dark brown (almost black) irises and the female has mid-brown or red irises. The"
"egg-laying; owners seeking to avoid egg-laying should avoid this particular form of bonding. The cockatiel has been shown to be capable of hybridising with the galah, producing offspring described as ""galatiels"". About fifteen primary mutations have been established in the species and enable the production of many different combinations. Colour mutations are natural but very rare phenomenon that occur in both captivity and the wild, although most colour morphs are due to selective breeding, in an effort to produce a bird with a ""perfect"" appearance. Cockatiel (aviculture) Cockatiels (""Nymphicus hollandicus"") are an Australian parrot that are generally regarded as good"
"but doubt this capability. The word ""drongo"" is used in Australian as a mild form of insult meaning ""idiot"" or ""stupid fellow"". This usage derives from an Australian racehorse of the same name (apparently after the spangled drongo, ""Dicrurus bracteatus"") in the 1920s that never won despite many places. Drongo The drongos are a family, Dicruridae, of passerine birds of the Old World tropics. The 25 species in the family are placed in a single genus ""Dicrurus"". The drongo fantail (""Chaetorhynchus papuensis""), formerly named the pygmy drongo, is not closely related and is now placed in the family Rhipiduridae. Drongos"
"where it is difficult for predators to access without being seen, 75% up the canopy. Each year, they produce 3-5 young. The unsuccessful racehorse Drongo was named after the bird and led to the Australian slang insult ""drongo"" meaning ""idiot"". Spangled drongo The spangled drongo (""Dicrurus bracteatus"") is a bird of the family Dicruridae. it is the only drongo to be found in Australia where it can be recognised by its black, iridescent plumage and by its characteristic forked tail. It feeds on insects and small vertebrates. It has complex and varied calls and is a mimic of the sounds"
"these birds from Australia. Gouldian finch The Gouldian finch (""Erythrura gouldiae""), also known as the Lady Gouldian finch, Gould's finch or the rainbow finch, is a colourful passerine bird which is native to Australia. The Gouldian finch was described by British ornithological artist John Gould in 1844 as ""Amadina gouldiae"", in honour of his deceased wife Elizabeth. It is also known as the rainbow finch, Gould's finch, or the Lady Gouldian finch and sometimes just Gould. It is a member of the estrildid-finch family Estrildidae, which is sometimes considered a subfamily of Passeridae. It had been placed in the genus"
"garrulus""), the black-headed grakle (""Gracula melanocephala""), the hooded bee-eater (""Merops cucullatus""), and the white-fronted bee-eater (""Merops albifrons""). This has caused some confusion in the ornithological literature as to the correct scientific name. Latham's 1801 Latin supplement is the authority for around seventy species of birds, almost all of which occur only in Australasia. They include the Pacific gull, the barking owl, the noisy miner, the Australian magpie and the magpie-lark. Beginning in 1821, when Latham was in his eighties, he published an expanded version in eleven volumes of his earlier work with the title ""A General History of Birds"". The"
"direction. ""Goofus"" is a possible origin of the word ""doofus,"" slang for a person prone to foolishness or stupidity, perhaps influenced by the German word ""doof"", meaning stupid. The Goofus bird is one of many fearsome critters of lumberjack folklore, fantastical beasts that were said to inhabit the frontier wilderness of North America, and is an example of a 'tall tale', a story with unbelievable elements related as if it were factual. Goofus bird The Goofus bird is a mythical, backwards-flying bird, originating in lumberjack folklore in North America. It is also known variously as the ""Filla-ma-loo bird"" or the"
"Sand goanna The sand goanna (""Varanus gouldii"" ) is a species of large Australian monitor lizard, also known as Gould's monitor, the sand monitor, or racehorse goanna. In some Aboriginal languages, the sand goanna is called ""bungarra"", a term also commonly used by non-Aboriginal people in Western Australia. In Pitjantjatjara and other central Australian languages it is called ""Tingka"". The name ""sand monitor"" can be used to describe various other species. The specific name, ""gouldii"", is a Latinised form of the name of the scientist who first described this species, English ornithologist John Gould. ""Nota bene"": A trinomial authority in"
"colours of the juveniles are duller than the adults. Juveniles have greyish chests, crowns, and crests, and they have brown irises and whitish bare eye rings, which are not carunculated. Galahs are found in all Australian states, and are absent only from the driest areas and the far north of Cape York Peninsula. It is still uncertain whether they are native to Tasmania, though there are records from as early as the 1840s, and they are locally common today, especially in urban areas. They are common in some metropolitan areas, for example Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne, and common to abundant"
"using recreational vessels. At the turn of the 20th century in Australia, the term ""hoon"" (and its rhyming slang version ""silver spoon"", and also ""banana"") had a different meaning: one who lived off immoral earnings (i.e. the proceeds of prostitution, a pimp or procurer of prostitutes). Linguist Sid Baker in his book ""The Australian Language"" suggested that ""hoon"" (meaning ""a fool"") was a contraction of Houyhnhnm, a fictional race of intelligent horses which appears in ""Gulliver's Travels"" by Jonathan Swift. Hoon, when used in relation to people in motor vehicles (or associated with car culture), may be onomatopoeia. One may"
"Hall's babbler Hall's babbler is a small species of bird in the Pomatostomidae family most commonly found in dry ""Acacia"" scrubland of interior regions of eastern Australia. Superficially similar to the white-browed babbler this species was only recognised during the 1960s, which makes it a comparatively recent discovery. The bird is named after the Australian-born philanthropist Major Harold Wesley Hall, who funded a series of expeditions to collect specimens for the British Museum, during which the first specimens of Hall's Babbler were collected in south-western Queensland in 1963. Hall's babbler is medium in size (19 cm-21 cm) and identified by"
"can be attributed to the continent's long geographic isolation, tectonic stability, and the effects of an unusual pattern of climate change on the soil and flora over geological time. Australia and its territories are home to around 800 species of bird; 45% of these are endemic to Australia. Predominant bird species in Australia include the Australian magpie, Australian raven, the pied currawong, crested pigeons and the laughing kookaburra. The koala, emu, platypus and kangaroo are national animals of Australia, and the Tasmanian devil is also one of the well-known animals in the country. The goanna is a predatory lizard native"
"""Australian Geographic"" article were sourced from ""Australian Geographer"" and did not match the Australian Museum's species description. Drop bear A drop bear (sometimes dropbear) is a hoax in contemporary Australian folklore featuring a predatory, carnivorous version of the koala (""Phascolarctos cinereus""). This imaginary animal is commonly spoken about in tall tales designed to scare tourists. While koalas are typically docile herbivores (and notably, not bears), drop bears are described as unusually large and vicious marsupials that inhabit treetops and attack unsuspecting people (or other prey) that walk beneath them by dropping onto their heads from above. Stories about drop bears"
"Prum, R.O. ""et al."" (2015). Australaves Australaves is a recently defined clade of birds, consisting of the Eufalconimorphae (passerines, parrots and falcons) as well as the Cariamiformes (including seriemas and the extinct ""terror birds""). They appear to be the sister group of Afroaves. As in the case of Afroaves, the most basal clades have predatory extant members, suggesting this was the ancestral lifestyle; however, some researchers like Darren Naish are skeptical of this assessment, since some extinct representatives such as the herbivorous ""Strigogyps"" lead other lifestyles. Basal parrots and falcons are at any rate vaguely crow-like and probably omnivorous. Cladogram"
"Gouldian finch The Gouldian finch (""Erythrura gouldiae""), also known as the Lady Gouldian finch, Gould's finch or the rainbow finch, is a colourful passerine bird which is native to Australia. The Gouldian finch was described by British ornithological artist John Gould in 1844 as ""Amadina gouldiae"", in honour of his deceased wife Elizabeth. It is also known as the rainbow finch, Gould's finch, or the Lady Gouldian finch and sometimes just Gould. It is a member of the estrildid-finch family Estrildidae, which is sometimes considered a subfamily of Passeridae. It had been placed in the genus ""Chloebia"", as ""Chloebia gouldiae""."
"John Gould John Gould FRS (; 14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881) was an English ornithologist and bird artist. He published a number of monographs on birds, illustrated by plates that he produced with the assistance of his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart. He has been considered the father of bird study in Australia and the Gould League in Australia is named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed ""Darwin's finches"" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by"
"Bay dog A bay dog (or bailer, in Australian English) is a dog that is specially trained to find, chase, and then bay, or howl at from a safe distance from large animals during a hunt, such as during a wild boar hunt. Bay dogs chase and circle the boar, keeping it cornered in one place, while barking intensely. This behavior is known as ""baying"" or keeping the boar ""at bay"". In Australia the terms ""bay-dogs"" and ""baying"" are not in common usage. In Australia these are colloquially referred to as ""bailers"" and ""bailing"", respectively. The vocalizing of the dogs"
"Moorhen Moorhens — sometimes called marsh hens — are medium-sized water birds that are members of the rail family (Rallidae). Most species are placed in the genus Gallinula, Latin for ""little hen"". They are close relatives of coots. They are often referred to as (black) gallinules. Recently, one of the species of ""Gallinula"" was found to have enough differences to form a new genus ""Paragallinula"" with the only species being the Lesser moorhen (""Paragallinula angulata""). Two species from the Australian region, sometimes separated in , are called ""native hens""(also native-hen or, in some specialist sources, nativehen). The native hens differ"
"Australasian gannet The Australasian gannet (""Morus serrator""), also known as Australian gannet and tākapu, is a large seabird of the gannet family Sulidae. Adults are mostly white, with black flight feathers at the wingtips and lining the trailing edge of the wing. The central tail feathers are also black. The head is yellow, with a pale blue-grey bill edged in black, and blue-rimmed eyes. Young birds have mottled plumage in their first year, dark above and light below. The head is an intermediate mottled grey, with a dark bill. The birds gradually acquire more white in subsequent seasons until they"
"of Australian fauna: ""... the eye is placed like that of the Sloth, very close to the mouth and nose, which gives it a clumsy awkward appearance, and void of elegance in the combination ... they have little either in their character or appearance to interest the Naturalist or Philosopher. As Nature however provides nothing in vain, we may suppose that even these torpid, senseless creatures are wisely intended to fill up one of the great links of the chain of animated nature ..."". Naturalist and popular artist John Gould illustrated and described the koala in his three-volume work ""The"
"Chough There are two species of passerine birds commonly called chough ( ) that constitute the genus Pyrrhocorax of the Corvidae (crow) family of birds. These are the red-billed chough (""Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax""), and the Alpine chough (or Yellow-billed chough) (""Pyrrhocorax graculus""). The white-winged chough of Australia, despite its name, is not a true chough but rather a member of the family Corcoracidae and only distantly related. The choughs have black plumage and brightly coloured legs, feet, and bills, and are resident in the mountains of southern Eurasia and North Africa. They have long broad wings and perform spectacular aerobatics. Both"
"Brolga The brolga (""Antigone rubicunda""), formerly known as the native companion, is a bird in the crane family. It has also been given the name Australian crane, a term coined in 1865 by well-known ornithological artist John Gould in his ""Birds of Australia"". The brolga is a common, gregarious wetland bird species of tropical and south-eastern Australia and New Guinea. It is a tall, upright bird with a small head, long beak, slender neck and long legs. The plumage is mainly grey, with black wing tips, and it has an orange-red band of colour on its head. It is well"
"Drop bear A drop bear (sometimes dropbear) is a hoax in contemporary Australian folklore featuring a predatory, carnivorous version of the koala (""Phascolarctos cinereus""). This imaginary animal is commonly spoken about in tall tales designed to scare tourists. While koalas are typically docile herbivores (and notably, not bears), drop bears are described as unusually large and vicious marsupials that inhabit treetops and attack unsuspecting people (or other prey) that walk beneath them by dropping onto their heads from above. Stories about drop bears are generally used as an in-joke intended to frighten and confuse outsiders while amusing locals, similar to"
"Bunjil In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Bunjil is a creator deity, culture hero and ancestral being, often depicted as a wedge-tailed eagle (or eaglehawk). In the Kulin nation in central Victoria he was regarded as one of two moiety ancestors, the other being Waa the crow. Bunjil has two wives and a son, Binbeal the rainbow. His brother is Palian the bat. He is assisted by six ""wirmums"" or shamans who represent the clans of the Eaglehawk moiety: Djart-djart the nankeen kestrel, Thara the quail hawk, Yukope the parakeet, Lar-guk the parrot, Walert the brushtail possum and Yurran the gliding possum."
"an area. The name ‘babbler’ may have come from the constant communication between groups as they forage. The calls consist of constant ‘clucks’ while foraging, and an alarm call which sounds more like a loud buzzing, usually resulting in flocks retreating to the cover of trees. Threats include habitat loss through clearing, habitat degradation through pastoralism and potentially predation by foxes and cats. Recovery recommendations include; Hall's babbler Hall's babbler is a small species of bird in the Pomatostomidae family most commonly found in dry ""Acacia"" scrubland of interior regions of eastern Australia. Superficially similar to the white-browed babbler this"
"and in that of the CAC Winjeel aircraft. In other sources, the name may be recorded as Pundjel, Bunjel, Pundjil, Punjel, Pun-Gel, Bun-Gil, or Pundgel. Bunjil In Australian Aboriginal mythology, Bunjil is a creator deity, culture hero and ancestral being, often depicted as a wedge-tailed eagle (or eaglehawk). In the Kulin nation in central Victoria he was regarded as one of two moiety ancestors, the other being Waa the crow. Bunjil has two wives and a son, Binbeal the rainbow. His brother is Palian the bat. He is assisted by six ""wirmums"" or shamans who represent the clans of the"
"group of endemic parrots, order Psittaciformes. Australian parrots comprise a sixth of the world's parrots, including many cockatoos and galahs. The kookaburra is the largest species of the kingfisher family, known for its call, which sounds uncannily like loud, echoing human laughter. The passerines of Australia, also known as songbirds or perching birds, include wrens, robins, the magpie group, thornbills, pardalotes, the huge honeyeater family, treecreepers, lyrebirds, birds of paradise and bowerbirds. The satin bowerbird has attracted the interest of evolutionary psychologists; it has a complex courtship ritual in which the male creates a bower filled with blue, shiny items"
"Australian golden whistler The Australian golden whistler (""Pachycephala pectoralis""), or golden whistler, is a species of bird found in forest, woodland, mallee, mangrove and scrub in Australia (except the interior and most of the north) Most populations are resident, but some in south-eastern Australia migrate north during the winter. Its taxonomy is highly complex and remains a matter of dispute, with some authorities including as many as 59 subspecies of the golden whistler (one of the highest numbers of subspecies in any bird), while others treat several of these as separate species. The Australian golden whistler was originally described in"
"Bogan Bogan ( ) is Australian and New Zealand slang for a person whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour are considered unrefined or unsophisticated. Depending on the context, the term can be pejorative or self-deprecating. The prevalence of the term bogan has also been associated with changing social attitudes towards social class in Australia. Specifically, the term has been related to the decline of masculine conceptions of meritocracy in Australia, and a growing ambivalence towards traditional sites of working class culture. Since the 1980s, the bogan has become a very well-recognised subculture, often as an example of bad taste. It"
"of Australia"" in the two-volume ""Handbook to the Birds of Australia"". The Birds of Australia (Gould) The Birds of Australia was a book written by John Gould and published in seven volumes between 1840 and 1848. It was the first comprehensive survey of the birds of Australia and included descriptions of 681 species, 328 of which were new to science and were first described by Gould. Gould and his wife Elizabeth travelled to Australia from England in 1838 to prepare the book. They spent a little under two years collecting specimens for the book. John travelled widely and made extensive"
"Malleefowl The malleefowl (""Leipoa ocellata"") is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken (to which it is distantly related). It is notable for the large nesting mounds constructed by the males and lack of parental care after the chicks hatch. It is the only living representative of the genus ""Leipoa"", though the extinct giant malleefowl was a close relative. Malleefowl are shy, wary, solitary birds that usually fly only to escape danger or reach a tree to roost in. Although very active, they are seldom seen as they freeze if disturbed, relying on their intricately"
"they know for sure which parents produced any given birds. Parakeets produce about three to eight eggs on average. Parakeet A parakeet is any one of a large number of small to medium-sized species of parrot, in multiple genera, that generally have long tail feathers. Older spellings still sometimes encountered are paroquet or paraquet. The name parakeet is derived from the French word ""perroquet"". It is however a pseudo-francism as ""perroquet"" means ""parrot"" in French, while the French for parakeet is ""perruche"". The Australian budgerigar, also known as ""budgie"", ""Melopsittacus undulatus"", is probably the most common parakeet. It was first"