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What Bird is That?:

A Guide to the Birds of Australia
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Angus and Robertson, 1953 - Birds - 315 pages

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Fantastic reference book! I have learned so much about the avian wildlife around me. Read full review

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Perfect field guide to Australian birds. Read full review

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Contents

AUSTRALIAS LARGEST BIRDS i
3
FORESTFREQUENTING BIRDS
7
Birds of the Brushes and Big Scrubs
9

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What bird is that?: A guide to the birds of Australia
What bird is that?: A guide to the birds of Australia
Neville William Cayley
Snippet view - 1944
What bird is that?: A guide to the birds of Australia
What bird is that?: A guide to the birds of Australia
Neville William Cayley
Snippet view - 1947
What bird is that?: A guide to the birds of Australia
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Neville William Cayley
Snippet view - 1948
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Aru Islands August to December Bass Strait big scrubs bird Breeding-season brown call-note called Cape York cobwebs colour 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 grey ground Guinea habits and economy herbage hollow limb Honey-eater inhabiting insects insects of various Islands larger end larvae 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 pure white 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

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TitleWhat Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia
AuthorNeville William Cayley
Editionreprint
PublisherAngus and Robertson, 1953
Original fromCornell University
Digitized12 Feb 2009
Length315 pages
  
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