what is the bird emblem of the northern territory
Wedge-tailed eagle
title: Coat of arms of the Northern Territory text: Coat of arms of the Northern Territory The coat of arms of the Northern Territory is the official heraldic symbol representing the Australian territory. They were officially granted by royal warrant of Queen Elizabeth II on 11 September 1978. The arms, uniquely in Australia, incorporate all of the territory's floral, animal and bird emblems: the Sturt's desert rose ("Gossypium sturtianum"), red kangaroo ("Megaleia rufa") and wedge-tailed eagle ("Aquila audax"). Unlike other Australian states' arms, the Northern Territory's arms incorporate many reflections of the indigenous Australian culture and history: the shield itself is a representation of an Aboriginal painting and the title: Australian Capital Territory text: Wales in 1911, two years prior to the naming of Canberra as the national capital in 1913. The floral emblem of the ACT is the royal bluebell and the bird emblem is the gang-gang cockatoo. The ACT is bounded by the Goulburn-Cooma railway line in the east, the watershed of Naas Creek in the south, the watershed of the Cotter River in the west, and the watershed of the Molonglo River in the north-east. The ACT extends about North-South between 35-36S and West-East at around 149.6E, although the city area occupies the north-central part of this area. Apart from the title: Flag of Christmas Island text: the bottom left of the flag in the same manner as it appears on the flag of Australia. In the top right, the golden bosun bird ("Phaethon lepturus fulvus", one of six races of the white-tailed tropicbird) appears. It is considered to be a symbol of the Island. The last motif appears in the centre of the flag on a golden disc is the map of the island in green. The disc itself was originally only included to offset the green colour of the map, but has become linked to the mining industry. In 1986, the Christmas Island Assembly announced title: Northern Territory text: Northern Territory The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. It shares borders with Western Australia to the west (129th meridian east), South Australia to the south (26th parallel south), and Queensland to the east (138th meridian east). To the north, the territory is bordered by the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other Indonesian islands. Despite its large area—covering , making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world—it is sparsely populated. title: Black swan text: black swan's role in Australian heraldry and culture extends to the first founding of the colonies in the eighteenth century. It has often been equated with antipodean identity, the contrast to the white swan of the northern hemisphere indicating 'Australianness'. The black swan is featured on the flag, and is both the state bird and state emblem of Western Australia; it also appears in the Coat of Arms and other iconography of the state's institutions. The Noongar People of the South-West of Australia refer to the black swan by various local names; "Kooldjak" along the West and South-West coast, "Gooldjak"