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noisy miner
noun
- a honey-eater, Manorina melanocephala , of eastern Australia, having a grey-white plumage and brown wings and noted for its raucous cries
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Relentlessly chirpy, the noisy miner blasts the alarm before dawn alongside the screeching and flapping of rainbow lorikeets, parrots brighter than Magic Markers and that argue like toddlers.
From New York Times
Research published in May in the journal Animal Behaviour says the wily magpie has learned the meanings of different calls by the noisy miner and essentially eavesdrops to find out which predators are near.
From The Guardian
Some of the fans engage in ritual fight displays, not unlike those of aggressive birds such as the Noisy Miner.
From Scientific American
In some places superb fairy-wrens share the habitat with the noisy miner, a bird that forages in the canopy.
From Scientific American
The Noisy Miner is known to nearly everyone.
From Project Gutenberg
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