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Female red-rumped parrot (Psephotus haematonotus) this afternoon foraging on at Braeside Park, south eastern suburbs of Narrm/Melbourne, Australia

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Adult female superb fairywren (Malurus cyaneus) gathers a fine strand of grass, Jells Park , Glen Waverley, eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia

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After a few days of hot weather, Melbourne today is cooler, grey and damp, ideal for floofing oneself up and chilling. Sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) on , Jells Park, eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia

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Eastern rosella (Platycercus eximius) keeps cool in the shade of our neighbour's Liquidambar tree on , south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia

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Sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) digs deep for some tasty roots - most likely a corm of introduced onion grass (Romulea rosea) - on in the foreshore camping area at Rosebud, 80km south of Melbourne, Australia

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Male yellow-tailed black-cockatoo (Zanda funerea) with flockmates on a feeding stop under pine trees in the grounds of Sandringham Secondary College, , south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. An adult male can be distinguished by the red eye ring, dark bill, and less distinct yellow ear patch (compared to females and juveniles)

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Adult female glossy black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami) holds a she-oak (Allocasuarina species) 'cone' in its very powerful bill before breaking it open and extracting the seeds with its tongue, on at The Pines Flora and Fauna Reserve, Frankston, 40km south east of Melbourne, Australia

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Sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) framed by wattle flowers in springtime on , Braeside Park, SE suburbs of Melbourne, Australia

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Long-billed corella (Cacatua tenuirostris) holding a corm of introduced onion grass (Romulea rosea) it has just excavated from a field at Albert Park on , South Melbourne, Australia

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Little corellas (Cacatua sanguinea) inspect electrical connections on a street light in Caulfield, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia . (Note: We strongly recommend the use of a licensed electrician for any electrical work, not these clowns)

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Adult female yellow-tailed black-cockatoo (Zanda funerea) uses its powerful bill to tear open a fallen pine cone in search of the seeds, on at Sandringham Secondary College in the bayside suburbs of Melbourne, Australia

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An impossibly cute dusky moorhen chick (Gallinula tenebrosa) uses its oversized feet to 'walk on water' in a wetland area on at Jells Park in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia

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A rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) - a specialist pollen and nectar feeder - stretches to reach a eucalypt flower with its brush-tipped tongue; the genus name Trichoglossus literally means "hairy-tongued". On , Heatherton, SE suburbs of Melbourne, Australia

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Rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) inspecting some real estate - a potential nesting hollow in the trunk of a large eucalypt tree - on at Braeside Park, SE suburbs of Melbourne, Australia

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Galahs (Eolophus roseicapilla) visiting a tall eucalypt in our neighbourhood look flustered after being made to feel less than welcome by aggressive local rainbow lorikeets (out of shot), , bayside suburbs of Melbourne, Australia

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Sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) foraging for roots and corms in a grassy field on , Werribee, SW of Melbourne, Australia

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A visiting galah (Eolophus roseicapilla) forages among the memorial plaques in a lawn at Springvale Botanical Cemetery and Crematorium on in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia

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Long-billed corella (Cacatua tenuirostris) foraging on a grassy bank outside the soccer stadium in Albert Park on , South Melbourne, Australia

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Immature male red-rumped parrots (Psephotus haematonotus) bathing in an ephemeral waterway on , Braeside Park, SE suburbs of Melbourne, Australia

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Rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus coluccanus) feeding on lerp, small sugary casings made by the larvae of leaf-sucking psyllid insects, in a eucalypt on at Mordialloc, bayside suburbs of Melbourne, Australia

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