Field Guide to the Birds of Australia: A Book of IdentificationColour illustrations are accompanied by distribution maps, descriptive drawings and useful field information. |
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abdomen adult Albatross areas Aust belly Bill black Birds of Australia black bill blackish blue Bowerbird breast band Breeding seasons variable buff chestnut colour crest crown Curlew Sandpiper dark brown dark grey darker Dorsal flight Dotterel duller ear coverts edge eggs eucalypt eye-ring face Fairy-wren Family feed Female/Imm flanks flight RAOU Atlas Flycatcher forehead Frigatebird Gerygone grasslands green Grey Whistler grey-brown Gull Habitat Habitat coastal Habitat open forests Habitat rainforests head Honeyeater inland Legs lores Male mallee mangroves Migrates morph mottled moult nape neck nest Non-breeding olive-brown pale grey paler Pardalote Parrot patch pattern RAOU Atlas Petrel Plover plumage Race rainforests RAOU Atlas rufous rump Sandpiper Shearwater shrublands species spotted Storm-Petrel streaked Striated Pardalote stripe swamps Tern Thornbill throat tipped white trees underparts Underparts white undertail coverts upper breast upperparts Vagrant Ventral flight Voice loud waders whistle whitish woodlands yellow