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#NotAParrot #Wrensday Adult female superb fairywren (Malurus cyaneus) gathers a fine strand of grass, Jells Park #BoonWurrungCountry, Glen Waverley, eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia
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#NotAParrot An impossibly cute dusky moorhen chick (Gallinula tenebrosa) uses its oversized feet to 'walk on water' in a wetland area on #BoonWurrungCountry at Jells Park in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia
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#NotAParrot Australasian grebe (Tachybaptus novaehollandiae) resurfaces while feeding, Sydney Park Wetlands #GadigalCountry, Sydney, Australia
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#NotAParrot Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus) preens itself watched by two little black cormorants (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris), Sydney Park Wetlands #GadigalWangalCountry, Sydney, Australia
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#NotAParrot No figgy pudding for us today, but we did meet this male Australasian figbird (Sphecotheres vieilloti) - a member of the worldwide oriole family - on #GadigalWangalCountry at Sydney Park, a few kilometres SW of central Sydney, Australia
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#NotAParrot Laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) on the Yindyamarra Sculpture Walk #WiradjuriCountry, West Albury, southern New South Wales, Australia #ownpic #birds #BirdPhotography #birdwatching #WildOz #AustralianBirds

#NotAParrot Juvenile grey fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa) on #WurundjeriWoiWurrungCountry at Woodlands Historic Park, Greenvale, 25km NW of Melbourne, Australia #ownpic #birds #BirdPhotography #birdwatching #WildOz #AustralianBirds

#NotAParrot Iridescent plumage of a straw-necked ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis) at Braeside Park on #BoonWurrungCountry, SE suburbs of Melbourne, Australia #ownpic #birds #BirdPhotography #birdwatching #WildOz #AustralianBirds

#NotAParrot Female Australasian darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae) dries its wings after diving for food in the wetland at Braeside Park on #BoonWurrungCountry, southeastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia #ownpic #birds #BirdPhotography #birdwatching #WildOz

#NotAParrot Red-browed finches (Neochmia temporalis) at Gateway Island, Wodonga, NE Victoria, Australia #ownpic #birds #BirdPhotography #birdwatching #WildOz #AustralianBirds

I haven’t posted a photo for a few days, but we had a random #Dinosaur visitor today awaiting its time on the bird feeder, a Magpie Lark.

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#NotAParrot but close enough... Mexican parrot snake (Leptophis mexicanus) 🦜 🐍 , Campeche, Mexico. Pic by Joel Erick Nava Doctor https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/142786972

#NotAParrot Australasian swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus) on its nest in the reeds being fed by its mate, #BoonWurrungCountry, Maurie Jarvis Woodlands, Keysborough, SE suburbs of Melbourne, Australia #ownpic #birds #BirdPhotography #WildOz

#NotAParrot We were today years old when we learned the Spanish word for crocodile is COCODRILO not CROCODILO! It seems to be an example of metathesis, the rearranging of sounds or syllables in a word. Other Spanish examples of metathesis include milagro (miracle) and peligro (danger - from Latin periculum) https://youtu.be/RgJ-jvkURig