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Billabongs bil·la·bong (bĭl'ə-bông', -bŏng') n. Australian.

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1 Billabongs bil·la·bong (bĭl'ə-bông', -bŏng') n. Australian.

2 What is a billabong? bil·la·bong (bĭl'ə-bông', -bŏng') 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.

3 Where Are They Found?

4 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.

5 Fauna Estuarine Crocodile ( Crocodylus porosus ) or Freshwater crocodiles.

6 Fauna Southern Two-wattled Cassowarie

7 Fauna Koala

8 Fauna Whistling kite

9 Fauna The Marsh Harrier

10 Flora Eucalyptus or Paper bark tree

11 Flora

12 Many Species Reeds Grasses Sedges Rushes

13 Flora

14 Trumpet-creeper

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