What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 270
... Bass Strait , and the coasts of Victoria , Tas- mania , and New Zealand , to the coast of South America . NOTES . Also called Smaller Diving - petrel and Common Diving - petrel . Usually seen singly or in small scattered flocks ...
... Bass Strait , and the coasts of Victoria , Tas- mania , and New Zealand , to the coast of South America . NOTES . Also called Smaller Diving - petrel and Common Diving - petrel . Usually seen singly or in small scattered flocks ...
Page 286
... Bass Strait , and on the coasts of Victoria , South Australia , and Tasmania . It is similar in habits and economy to the Wedge - tailed Shearwater . In Bass Strait its eggs and young form the main support of the islanders . Also breeds ...
... Bass Strait , and on the coasts of Victoria , South Australia , and Tasmania . It is similar in habits and economy to the Wedge - tailed Shearwater . In Bass Strait its eggs and young form the main support of the islanders . Also breeds ...
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... Bass Strait , xxxv , 19 , 271 Black - lored , xxxv , 21 , 272 Black - naped , xxxv , 23 , 272 Bridled , xxxv , 25 , 273 Brown - winged , xxv , 25 , 273 Caspian , xxxv , 17 , 270 Crested , xxxv , 19 , 271 Dog , xxxv , 25 , 273 Eastern ...
... Bass Strait , xxxv , 19 , 271 Black - lored , xxxv , 21 , 272 Black - naped , xxxv , 23 , 272 Bridled , xxxv , 25 , 273 Brown - winged , xxv , 25 , 273 Caspian , xxxv , 17 , 270 Crested , xxxv , 19 , 271 Dog , xxxv , 25 , 273 Eastern ...
Contents
BIRDS OF THE LAKES Streams and SwamPS | 217 |
BIRDS OF THE OCEAN AND SHORE | 251 |
BIRDS INTRODUCED AND ESTABLISHED IN AUSTRALIA | 291 |
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What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia Neville William Cayley No preview available - 1931 |
Common terms and phrases
Aru Islands August to December Bass Strait big scrubs bird Breeding-season brown call-note called Cape York Cape York Peninsula cobwebs composed of dried composed of sticks cup-shaped structure DISTRIBUTION dome-shaped structure dried grasses eastern EGGS eucalypts feet Female Food freckled frequenting chiefly Gould ground Guinea habits and economy herbage hollow limb Honey-eater inhabiting insects insects of various Islands larger end larvæ Latham limb or hole low bush mangroves Molucca Islands native fruits nectar NEST north-western Australia northern Australia Northern Queensland Northern Territory NOTES numbers October to January pairs or flocks pairs or small pale Parrot plants purplish-brown purplish-grey Queensland reddish-brown rootlets scrub-lands seeds of grasses September to December Silver-eye similar in habits small flocks South Australia South Wales southern species spinifex spotted and blotched strips of bark swamps Tasmania Temminck tree twigs underlying markings Usually in flocks Usually in pairs Usually placed Usually singly uttered Western Australia Zealand