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Hint
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Answer
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National animal of New Zealand
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Kiwi
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Waterbird with entirely black plumage and a usually white bill
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Coot
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Raptor alternatively known as the crested hawk
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Baza
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Turkey-like Latin American bird related to curassows and chachalacas
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Guan
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(Small) pigeon
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Dove
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What the ugly duckling actually was
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Swan
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Waterbird similar to crakes and gallinules
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Rail
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Small red weaver native to Madagascar and surrounding islands
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Fody
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Bird considered sacred in ancient Egypt
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Ibis
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Cormorant with a crest
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Shag
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Bird of prey named because of the way its wings and tail catch the wind
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Kite
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Small, pretty dabbling duck
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Teal
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Common Hawaiian bird also known as the scarlet honeycreeper
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I'iwi
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Crested grey bird endemic to New Caledonia
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Kagu
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Small, migratory crake of North America
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Sora
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One might steal your chips at the beach
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Gull
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Corvid sharing its name with a chess piece
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Rook
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Large flightless bird native to South America
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Rhea
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Predatory, piratic seabird also known as the bonxie
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Skua
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Medium-sized, migratory shorebird which breeds in the Arctic
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Knot
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Large, sexually dimorphic cuckoo with a distinctive call
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Koel
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Small brown bird of the Americas, or a colourful bird of Australasia
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Wren
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South American hummingbird with a white breast
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Inca
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Tiny Caribbean bird resembling a small kingfisher
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Tody
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Large bird of prey found worldwide
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Hawk
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Insectivorous songbird formerly classified in the thrush family
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Chat
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Like a goose, but smaller
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Duck
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Green, sexually dimorphic bird native to South and Southeast Asia
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Iora
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Often used to refer to the whole corvid genus
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Crow
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Seabird usually with white plumage and a black cap
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Tern
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Endangered New Zealand parrot
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Kaka
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Widespread, usually brown songbird
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Lark
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Colourful parrot popular as a pet
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Lory
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Bird depicted on the Canadian one-dollar coin
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Loon
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Goose which is the state bird of Hawaii
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Nene
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Terrestrial bird in the cuckoo family, endemic to Madagascar
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Coua
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One of only three birds considered to be in the world's 100 most invasive species
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Myna
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Small green warbler endemic to Madagascar
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Jery
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Flightless rail-like bird of New Zealand
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Weka
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Black-and-white merganser
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Smew
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Hawaiian thrush
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Omao
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Small brown honeyeater found on Sulawesi
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Myza
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Small Brazilian hummingbird
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Ruby
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Type of dull-coloured cotinga
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Piha
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The list needs quite a few additions to approach comprehensiveness. Here are the ones I can dig up.
--Smew (one of my two biggest jinx birds!)
--Ruby (as in Brazilian Ruby)
--Piha
--Omao
--Myza (as in Dark-eared Myza and White-eared Myza)
--Huia (NZ bird that went extinct in early 20th century)
--Dodo (long gone, but perhaps everybody's best-known extinct bird)