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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Acanthizidae — thethornbills .
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Examples
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Range extension of the Inland Thornbill Acanthiza apicalis into the wet-dry tropics.
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The following birds utilize a variety of habitats, including eucalypt woodlands: a subspecies of wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax fleayi), Tasmanian native hen (Gallinula mortierii), Tasmanian thornbill (Acanthiza ewingii), and yellow wattlebird (Anthochaera paradoxa).
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Other birds found in this ecoregion include the western thornbill (Acanthiza inornata), and the short-billed black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris EN) which inhabits sandplain woodlands and mallee, and the long-billed black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus baudinii) which is found in open eucalypt woodland and farmland.
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Acanthiza pusilla, VIG. and HORSF. — — — — — uropygialis, GOULD. — — — — — inornata, GOULD. — — — — — lineata, GOULD. — — — — — chrysorrhoea.
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