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  • The largest, the Ngarkat Conservation Park – Big Desert Wilderness Park straddling the South Australian-Victorian border, totals more than 4,000 square kilometers (km2), and constitutes the main stronghold of the endangered black-eared miner (Manorina melanotis) and the vulnerable malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata).

    Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee 2007

  • It was to this singular and mysterious animal that the letter pointed; it was the black-eared steed I was called upon to capture.

    The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

  • a cave wherein to lie in wait for the passing scarab [a dung beetle also known as the sacred beetle]; the black-eared chat, garbed like a

    The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

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