whipbird

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"We're trying to create a civilization here in the way the pioneers did in the old West," says O'Mara, as a low mist rolls in over the set and the silence is punctured by the eerie call of a whipbird.

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Several threatened species are found in the heath vegetation of this ecoregion, including the western bristlebird (Dasyornis longirostris VU), western whipbird (Psophodes nigrogularis nigrogularis), and the western ground parrot (Pezoporus wallicus flaviventris), while the noisy scrub-bird (Atrichornis clamosus VU) lives in densely vegetated, eucalypt-dominated gullies.

Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands 2007