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Mini Twitchers Be a Mini Twitcher for a Day and Go Bird Spotting in The Mini Twitchers Be a Mini Twitcher for a day and go bird spotting in the sculpture park! Use the sculpture park map and the cut out-and-keep cards to locate each of the twelve painted birds hidden in trees in the sculpture park! Mini Twitchers Be a Mini Twitcher for a day and go bird spotting in the sculpture park! Use the sculpture park map below to locate each area where the twelve painted birds are hidden in trees in the sculpture park. Once you have found all of the birds you can cut out and keep the cards to help you identify these birds in the future. Keep your eyes peeled for the real birds on your twitching adventure! 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Crescent House TOURS Neil Taylor 2PM Theoretical Matter Front: Heide III exterior (photograph: Jeremy Weihrauch) Inside (clockwise from top left): Inge King, Rings of Saturn DAILY Theoretical Matter, 1999-2000 (photograph: Cows John and Sunday Reed 1943, gift of Barbara Tucker 2001; Heide I exterior. White Ibis Australian Wood Duck Tawny Frogmouth Magpie Lark Crimson Rosella Sulphur Crested Cockatoo Rainbow Lorikeet Australian Magpie Kookaburra Galah Noisy Minor Red Wattlebird Tawny Frogmouth Australian Wood Duck White Ibis Often mistaken for an owl, but has This bird looks like a goose A wading bird with a small featherless a flatter head. A master of camouflage with a rounded chestnut head head and slender, curved neck who looks like a tree branch! Plumage: Dark brown head, plumage: Mainly white with black Plumage: Mottled grey or reddish pale grey body and two black plumes on its lower back. brown streaked with black stripes along its back Beak: Long thin beak with Beak: Wide and flat like a frog Beak: Stubby and brown a downward curve Eyes: Big and yellow Eyes: Black Eyes: Small and black Call: ‘Oo-oom’ Call: A distinctive drawn-out ‘now’ Call: Harsh croaks Fun Fact: Tawny Frogmouths have sound Fun fact: Ibises fly in a ‘V’ formation an eerie stare that they use to surprise Fun fact: Australian wood ducks are so which reduces wind resistance for would-be predators. Their technique adaptable that they sometimes build trailing birds. When the front ibis is to sit very still with their eyes closed their nests in chimneys instead of tree becomes tired, it falls to the back of the then open them suddenly to give you hollows! formation and another ibis takes its a fright! place at the front. Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo Crimson Rosella Magpie Lark The largest of Australian parrots, A medium-sized colourful parrot A common backyard bird also with a distinct crest on its head. that is abundant in city suburbs and known as the Mudlark or Peewee Plumage: Mostly white with yellow eucalypt forests. Plumage: Glossy rich black tinges and a yellow crest Plumage: May vary but usually a bright and white markings Beak: Curved, dark and powerful red head and shoulders, blue cheek Beak: Thin and white with a sharp point Eyes: Mostly black or brown patches, and blue, black and green- Eyes: Pale iris, which marks it out from Call: Extremely loud raucous yellow wings other similar species screech that seems to reflect Beak: short and white Call: ‘pee-wee’ and ‘pee-wit’ often the bird’s emotions Eyes: Black sung as a duet Fun fact: When it is excited or alarmed Call: ‘kweek-kweek’ Fun Fact: Magpie-larks usually a cockatoo raises its crest right up. Fun fact: Rosellas can make mate for life and settle in one area. When resting or feeling unwell the good companion parrots and once they Together they build a big bowl-shaped crest feathers flatten down against the know you well they can be trained to nest made of mud and defend it back of the bird’s head. accept food from your hand. vigorously. They sometimes even attack their own reflections! Laughing Kookaburra Australian Magpie Rainbow Lorikeet Stocky with a large A conspicuous bird in the crow Vibrant small parrot, often head and stripey tail family, with a wing span of up to 85 cm! seen in noisy, fast moving flocks Plumage: Creamy-white body, Plumage: Black and white in Plumage: Brightly coloured with brown wings with sky blue spots on varying patterns a blue-mauve head, green back and the shoulder, rusty red tail Beak: Solid, wedge-shaped yellow-orange breast Beak: Broad and thick bluish white and black Beak: Juveniles have a black beak that Eyes: Dark brown and prominent Eyes: Black with a gradually brightens to orange. Call: Raucous ‘laughter’ chestnut-brown eye ring Eyes: Black pupil with red ring Fun fact: A kookaburra call begins Call: Flute-like carolling Call: Continuous screeching and ends with a chuckling sound, with Fun fact: Magpies are very intelligent Fun fact: Rainbow lorikeets are cheeky hoots, chortles, high-pitched laughing and can remember and recognise busybodies and like to play with their and trills in between! individual human faces for many years. favourite people. Did you know that They can even remember a person they have a brush-tipped tongue to who has been kind to them—and help them extract nectar from flowers? one who hasn’t! Red Wattlebird Noisy Miner Galah A long-tailed bird named after the A small noisy native bird in the A pretty species of cockatoo small but distinctive pinkish-red wattle honeyeater family. with a short crest that looks like (flap) on either side of its neck Plumage: Grey body with black a cap when its lowered. Plumage: Grey-brown body, crown and cheeks. Plumage: Rose-pink head, neck with prominent white streaks on Beak: Orange-yellow. and underparts with paler pink crown the underside and a yellow patch Eyes: Black with distinctive yellow and a grey back and wings on the belly patch behind the eye Beak: Sharp, bone-coloured Beak: Thin, curved and black Call: A very loud ‘pwee-pwee-pwee’ eyes: Male Galahs have dark eyes Eyes: Orange-red to crimson Fun fact: These little guys can be while females have pink or red eyes Call: Raucous harsh ‘tobacco box- helpers in the garden. With their big Call: High pitched ‘scree’ tobacco box’ appetites they love to eat the little bugs Fun fact: Galahs are very sociable, and Fun fact: Red Wattlebirds can often be and insects that create problems in gather in flocks of up to 1000. They are seen hanging upside down to get at the your veggie patch. often seen hanging upside down from nectar of a particularly delicious flower. trees by one foot and like to perform acrobatics at dusk before roosting..
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