The lake has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) because, when flooded, it supports major breeding events of the Banded Stilt and Australian Pelican, as well as over 1 % of the world populations of Red-necked Avocets, Sharp-tailed Sandpipers, Red-necked Stints, Silver Gulls and Caspian Terns.

The birds that use these wetlands include the Freckled Duck ( Stictonetta naevosa ), Musk Duck ( Biziura lobata ), Silver Gull ( Larus novaehollandiae ), Australian Pelican ( Pelecanus conspicillatus ), Great Egret ( Ardea alba ), Glossy Ibis ( Plegadis falcinellus ), and Banded Stilt ( Cladorhynchus leucocephalus ).

One very common large seabird is the Australian Pelican, which can be found in most waterways in Australia.

* Birds including the eponymous Black Swan, Silver Gull, Cormorants ( locally referred to as ' shags '), Twenty-eight parrots, Rainbow Lorikeet, Kingfisher, Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Australian Pelican, Australian Magpie, Heron, Ducks

* Pelecanus conspicillatus Australian Pelican

A brown pelican ( voiced by Geoffrey Rush in an Australian accent ) was as illustrated as a friendly, virtuous talking character named Nigel in the animated children's film Finding Nemo, set in the Pacific Ocean near Australia, although only the white Australian Pelican is known to occur in that country.

The Australian Pelican was first described by Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1824.

An Australian Pelican in flight

The Australian Pelican is medium-sized by pelican standards, with a wingspan of.

Overall, the Australian Pelican is predominantly white in colour.

The bones were later described as a new ( sub ) species, Pelecanus ( conspicillatus ) novaezealandiae ( Scarlett, 1966: " New Zealand Pelican ") as they appeared to be larger, but Worthy ( 1998 ), reviewing new material, determined that they were not separable from the Australian population.

However, the Australian Pelican seems to be less of a piscivore and more catholic in taste than other pelicans.

The Australian Pelican is an occasional kleptoparasitic of other water birds, such as cormorants.

The Australian Pelican begins breeding at two or three years of age.

The Australian Pelican is not globally threatened.

The Australian Pelican is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

* Australian Pelican — Australian Museum Online

Image: Australian Pelican. jpg | Beach roosting at Moreton Island

Image: Brillenpelikan_ ( Pelecanus-conspicillatus ) _Weltvogelpark_Walsrode_2010. jpg | Australian Pelican during summer heat at Weltvogelpark Walsrode

Image: Brillenpelikan_ ( Pelecanus-conspicillatus ) _Weltvogelpark_Walsrode_2010-2. jpg | Australian Pelican catching prey at Weltvogelpark Walsrode

* Australian Pelican

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The Australian aborigine is the conventional exemplar of degraded humanity ; ;

And Secretary Rusk, en route to Bangkok, doubtless is trying to make emergency arrangements for the possible entry of Australian or Thai SEATO forces.

A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.

One is playing cricket ; the other is making no attempt to do so " after the latter had come into the Australian rooms to express sympathy for a Larwood bouncer had struck the Australian skipper in the heart and felled him.

The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.

The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

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Although English has no official status in the Constitution, Australian English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of the majority of the population.

The primary way in which Australian English is distinctive from other varieties of English is through its unique pronunciation.

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The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a socially liberal ideology.

The first of the Australian gold rushes, in the 1850s, began a large wave of immigration, with approximately two per cent of the population of the United Kingdom emigrating to the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.

Apart from the city of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory also contains agricultural land ( sheep, dairy cattle, vineyards and small amounts of crops ) and a large area of national park ( Namadgi National Park ), much of it mountainous and forested.

For instance, nearly all Australian languages lack fricatives ; a large percentage of the world's languages, for example Mandarin Chinese, lack voiced stops as phonemes such as,, and.

The stadium has been used by the Australian national football team for some friendly matches due to a large expatriate population living in England ( mainly in London ).

A large crowd of over 10, 000 fans welcome the Australian team on completing the first World Cup Hat-trick # Cricket | hat-trick – Martin Place, Sydney.

Either way, the trend is toward the modern Australian environment of highly flammable open sclerophyllous forests, woodlands and grasslands, none of which are suitable for large, slow-moving browsing animals — and either way, the changed microclimate produces substantially less rainfall.

Like many large Australian cities, Hobart once operated passenger tram services, a trolleybus network consisting of six routes which operated until 1968.

Within a short time the beach and the water off shore were being searched by a large contingent of police, Royal Australian Navy divers, Royal Australian Air Force helicopters, Army personnel from nearby Point Nepean and local volunteers.

Approximately 20 % of Australian school students are currently enrolled in Catholic schools that were, in large part, established by Irish Catholic religious orders.

In 1971 Greenberg proposed the Indo-Pacific macrofamily, which groups together the Papuan languages ( a large number of language families of New Guinea and nearby islands ) with the native languages of the Andaman Islands and Tasmania but excludes the Australian Aboriginal languages.

This includes a variety of native fish such as the famous Murray cod, trout cod, golden perch, Macquarie perch, silver perch, eel-tailed catfish, Australian smelt and western carp gudgeon, to name a few, and other aquatic species like the Murray short-necked turtle, Murray River crayfish, broad-clawed yabbies and the large clawed Macrobrachium shrimp, as well as aquatic species more widely distributed through south-eastern Australia such as common long-necked turtles, common yabbies, the small claw-less Paratya shrimp, water rats and Platypus.

* Huckitta – A large Australian Pallasite.

Chomsky has said that Australian social psychologist Alex Carey, to whom the book was dedicated, was in large part the impetus of his and Herman's work.

Most of West Papua, at that time known as Dutch New Guinea, was occupied, as were large parts of the Territory of New Guinea ( the former German New Guinea, which was also under Australian rule after World War I ), but Papua was protected to a large extent by its southern location and the near-impassable Owen Stanley Ranges to the north.

In the late 60s a large development program prepared by the Department of Transport as a result of the UNDP Transport Survey of Papua New Guinea was endorsed by the PNG House of Assesmbly, the Australian Parliament and multilateral agences, and implementation continued through later decades.

During the economic boom of the 1980s, the Western Australian government became closely involved with a number of large businesses.

Changes to entertainment options have to a large extent ended the tradition of Australian pub Rock as a viable circuit.

Australian road transport has a reputation for using very large trucks and road trains.

For example, Australian professor Stephen Wheatcroft argues that these penal camps were neither as large nor as deadly as is often claimed.

No other member of the Australian IWW actually entered Parliament but Grants career is emblematic in the sense that the ex-IWW militants by and large remained in the broader labour movement, bringing some greater or lesser part of their heritage with them.

The Lionel-Murphy SNR is nitrogen-abundant supernova remnant ( SNR ) N86 in the Large Magellanic Cloud named by astronomers at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory in acknowledgement of Australian High Court Justice Lionel Murphy's interest in science and because of SNR N86's perceived resemblance to his large nose.

About two-thirds of Australian marsupials belong to the order Diprotodontia, which is split into three suborders: the Vombatiformes ( wombats and the koala, 4 species in total ); the large and diverse Phalangeriformes ( the possums and gliders ) and Macropodiformes ( kangaroos, potoroos, wallabies and the musky rat-kangaroo ).