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Australian Animals Photography

This is not a quoll. It is an Australian white ibis wandering around at Perth Zoo doing ibis things.

These birds are a fairly common sight in suburban Perth and have a brilliant patch of red skin under their wings.

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These are not quolls. These are little penguins helpfully looking for a dropped contact lens.

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This is not a quoll though it seems to eat roughly the same stuff. It is a boobook owl, a small brown owl related to the barking owl. I once saw a boobook owl in the central business district of Perth city, and more than once i’ve heard their distinctive two-tone call from my house out in the suburbs.

Unlike the tawny frogmouth, the boobook is a true owl.

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Australian Animals Photography

This is not a quoll but it does live around the corner from one. It is a tawny frogmouth being offered a mouse by one of the keepers at Perth Zoo. It wasn’t hungry.

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This is not a quoll. It is an Australian owlet-nightjar, a small grumpy insectivorous bird of prey.