Billabongs bil

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Billabongs billabong (bil'?-bông', -bong')
n. Australian.
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What is a billabong?

• billabong (bil'?-bông', -bong') n. Australian.
  
• A dead-end channel extending from the main stream
  of a river.
• A streambed filled with water only in the rainy
  season.
• A stagnant pool or backwater.

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Where Are They Found?
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Endangered?

• It's an endangered species. There are only half
  as many billabongs in Australia now as there were
  in 1895 . The dams used in modern flood control
  have cut off and dried up more than half the
  billabongs in Australia.

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Fauna
Estuarine Crocodile ( Crocodylus porosus ) or
Freshwater crocodiles.
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Fauna
Southern Two-wattled Cassowarie
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Fauna

• Koala

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Fauna

• Whistling kite

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Fauna

• The Marsh Harrier

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Flora

• Eucalyptus or Paper bark tree

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Flora
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Flora

• Many Species
• Reeds
• Grasses
• Sedges
• Rushes

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Flora
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Flora

• Trumpet-creeper

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