The maple leaf is the symbol of Canada. Ottawa is the capital of the country. New Zealand is east of Australia. There are more sheep than people in New Zealand. The people of New Zealand speak English. The kiwi, a bird which cannot fly, is the symbol of New Zealand. Australia is the smallest, flattest, hottest and driest of the continents. It is nearly 3 million square kilometres smaller than Europe. Australia has over 700 different kinds of birds. Most people,s favourites are parrots and cockatoos, eagles, kookaburras, and emus, which can run at 50 kilometres per hour. Kangaroos and koalas live there. The kangaroo is the symbol of Australia. In Australia the summer months are December, January and February and the winter months are June, July and August.Allthough Australia is the hottest continent, people can go skiing in the mountains in winter.
eggs like birds and feed their young with milk like mammals do. They form a link between birds and mammals. The duck-bill or platypus lives in the rivers of East Australia mostly. The echidna or spiny ant-eater eats termites. Of many birds the emu, the Australian ostrich, is the biggest. The lyrebird has got its name from he lyre-like tail of the he-bird. He can imitate all kinds of noises. The black swan is also found in Australia only. Many bright coloured parrots, cockatoos and birds of paradise live in the forests. There are few ordinary mammals in Australia. The dingo is a wolflike wild dog. He is a menace to all the Australian cattle-breeders. The Englishmen brought rabbits to Australia. Soon they became wild and very numerous. They are the real pests of the fields and pastures. In 1930 the Australians started to build the rabbit proof fence. They built it because the rabbits spread too rapidly and they were bad for the cattle-breeders
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