It's the bilby, which is an endangered marsupial that lives in the desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content] Reference

The bilby is the Central Australian bunny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbit, rabbit. « A Bird’s Nest] Reference

The park protects important habitat for an isolated population of the vulnerable bilby (Macrotis lagotis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mitchell grass downs] Reference

They fill the same ecological niche as the bunny, only the bunny is better at it, and so since the introduction of the bunny to Australia, bilby numbers have dropped alarmingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbit, rabbit. « A Bird’s Nest] Reference

Several mammal species, including bilby (Macrotis lagotis VU), northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) and golden bandicoot (Isoodon auratus VU), have declined or disappeared altogether from this ecoregion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victoria Plains tropical savanna] Reference

Several mammal species, including bilby (Macrotis lagotis VU), northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus), pale field-rat (Rattus tunneyi), golden-backed tree-rat, and golden bandicoot have declined, especially in the lower rainfall lowland portions of this ecoregion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kimberly tropical savanna] Reference

However a high number of mammal species, 14 percent of the total mammalian fauna, are considered regionally or globally threatened, including the greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis VU), hairy-footed dunnart (Sminthopsis hirtipes), dusky hopping mouse (Notomys fuscus VU), mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda VU), and kowari.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simpson desert] Reference

Twenty two native mammals are found in the park including dingo Canis familiaris dingo, red kangaroo Macropus rufus, common wallaroo M. robustus, marsupial mole Notoryctes typhlops, spinifex hopping mouse Notomys alexis, several bat species including Australian false vampire Marcoderma gigas (V), bilby Macrotis lagotis (E), occasional short nosed echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus and several small marsupials and native rodents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia] Reference

Your login identifies you publicly, and can't contain spaces or punctuation. bilby said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Errata: The Wordie Blog] Reference

Enough already. stop taking so much joy in the misfortune of others, wordie. bilby said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Errata: The Wordie Blog] Reference

Rabbits are not native to Australia, but thrive at the expense of native creatures like the bilby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planetsave] Reference

Some animals are casually named - tsessebe, greater bilby, boodie, tuatara, woylie - as if every reader knows what they look like.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Travel] Reference

The occasion was a ceremony at the Ipswich Nature Centre to officially name the bilby Jessica after Ms Watson, the Young Australian of the Year.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

Then there are European rabbits, which compete with the bilby for food and habitat - another reason why the Easter Bunny isn't as popular in Australia anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

The hemero root was used to mean 'day', which gives the word its metaphorical relationship to all that is temporal or passing, as the passing of a day. bilby said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Errata: The Wordie Blog] Reference

Then suddenly a strange bilby like creature hopped from behind the tree, Surely its not a bilby I thought, I looked in my wildlife book to discover it was a kowari.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Rabbits also threaten some of our native burrowing animals, such as the bilby and the burrowing bettong, by moving into their existing burrows and competing for food.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

bilby named for solo sailor Jessica Watson THREE rebels met in Ipswich today - larrikin swimmer Dawn Fraser, solo sailor Jessica Watson and a bilby who shouldn't have been born.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

With only about 600 bilbys left in the wild, the Web site www. easterbilby.com.au / aims to protect the bilby and is putting fundraising efforts toward establishing a refuge for the animal.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The "Easter bilby" movement Down Under is an effort by conservationists to draw attention away from rabbits -- considered pests -- and shed light on the endangered, and arguably cuter, bilby.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Mammals that have been extirpated from southern Eyre Peninsula include tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus), the vulnerable greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis), the endangered western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville), the vulnerable burrowing bettong (Bettongia leseur), and brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia pencillata).    From Wordnik.com.  [Eyre and York mallee] Reference

(adj): based on pretense; deceptively pleasing bilby said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Errata: The Wordie Blog] Reference

(adj): vs. undamaged) -- (harmed or injured or spoiled bilby said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Errata: The Wordie Blog] Reference

A bilby isn’t a bunny … I almost died from cuteness over the page with a like 20 pictures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbit, rabbit. « A Bird’s Nest] Reference

I’ve still got FKN bilby in the fridge and I’m sure they melted it down from Plaistowe cooking chocolate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheeseburger Gothic » Footy tipping for charity tomorrw. Victorian input needed.] Reference

I was researching the bilby today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: Bilby Shopping Cart Liner | Thingamababy] Reference

Do you have an easter bilby for your basket?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Deer] Reference

Todd and I laughed about the chocolate bilby!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easter Reflections] Reference

The bilby web site sells replacement seatbelts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: Bilby Shopping Cart Liner | Thingamababy] Reference

September 1, 2006 @ 8: 59 pm ooh, chocolate bilby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbit, rabbit. « A Bird’s Nest] Reference

Another bilby species, the lesser bilby (Macrotis leucura in the 1950s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

Instead, the nation uses the Easter holiday to celebrate one of its most endemic, and most endangered species, the greater bilby (.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

Easter bilby, "Australia's Environmental Minister Peter Garrett, former frontman for the band Midnight Oil, recently told schoolchildren.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

600 to 700 bilbies left in the wild, according to the Save the bilby Fund, a group based in Charleville, Australia, devoted to sparing the bilby from extinction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

A bilby.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content] Reference