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I’m sure way back in school you all learnt about Australia’s important military battles: Gallipoli, Kokoda, Tobruk. But did you ever hear tell of the Great Emu War of 1932? The one time in our glorious past when we declared war on a bird, the Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) Nearly 1.5 metres tall, weighing 60Kg, with aContinue reading “Bird 117 – Emu”