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The world's most common bird
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Bird
The world's most common bird

Bird
The familiar puddle duck

Bird
The widest wingspan on Earth

Reptile
The giant jellyfish specialist

Bird
The world's most dangerous bird

Mammal
The domestic cattle that feeds the world

Mammal
Antarctica's apex predator

Reptile
The tortoiseshell turtle

Mammal
The deep-diving giant with the largest brain

Mammal
Australia's feisty marsupial scavenger

Fish
The heaviest bony fish

Fish
The colourful fly-fisher's favourite

Fish
The whip-tailed hunter

Mammal
The roaring stag of Eurasian woodlands

Reptile
The powerful-jawed sea turtle

Mammal
The ancestor of the domestic pig

Mammal
The sleek greyhound of the seas

Mammal
The intelligent farm mammal

Fish
The toothy aquarium shark

Mammal
Australia's wild dog of the outback

Bird
Australia's loud crested parrot

Bird
The crowing guardian of the barnyard flock

Reptile
The friendly desert lizard and favorite pet reptile

Mammal
Australia's iconic eucalyptus-eating marsupial

Mammal
The playful domestic mustelid

Mammal
The agile browser

Bird
Australia's flightless giant

Bird
The ring-necked game bird of field and forest

Mammal
The egg-laying, duck-billed mammal of Australia

Mammal
The wallowing bovine of Asia

Mammal
Humanity's oldest livestock

Fish
America's favourite freshwater game fish

Mammal
The gentle sea cow of the Indo-Pacific

Reptile
The largest living reptile and most powerful bite on Earth

Mammal
The largest marsupial and a powerful hopper

Mammal
The smallest and most abundant rorqual

Bird
The ghostly, heart-faced night hunter

Insect
The blood-feeding pest of mattresses worldwide

Bird
New Zealand's flightless nocturnal bird with nostrils at the tip of its bill

Insect
The spotted beetle gardeners love

Mammal
The only mammals capable of true flight

Insect
The tireless team-working insect

Mammal
The smiling marsupial of Western Australia

Insect
The tiny insect with an outsized impact

Insect
The yellow-and-black predator and scavenger of summer

Mammal
The powerful Australian digger famous for cube-shaped droppings

Insect
The glowing beetle of warm summer nights

Insect
The loud summer singer with a long underground youth

Invertebrate
The big-eyed spider that pounces on its prey

Reptile
The lizard that flares a dramatic neck frill

Bird
The little Australian parakeet and world's most popular pet bird

Bird
The fastest animal on the planet

Insect
The patient ambush predator with folded arms

Insect
The colony-building recycler of dead wood

Insect
The familiar fly found wherever people live

Invertebrate
The fast, venomous predator with many legs

Invertebrate
The slow, many-legged recycler of the forest floor

Insect
The agile aerial hunter of ponds and streams

Insect
The wingless parasite famous for jumping

Bird
The crested Australian parrot known for whistling

Insect
The jumping insect of fields and meadows

Insect
One of the strongest animals for its size

Invertebrate
The slow, shell-carrying garden mollusk

Insect
The hardy survivor that lives almost anywhere

Insect
The chirping insect of warm evenings

Invertebrate
The soil engineer that enriches the earth

Invertebrate
The reef-dwelling giant of the mollusks