Magpie Alert: Learning to Live with a Wild NeighbourWherever people live in Australia, magpies tend to be found there, too. These very familiar birds are one of our most loved and admired wild birds. Yet, during the breeding season, many magpies become extremely aggressive toward people, sometimes causing serious injury or distress, especially to children. The fact that this is a very common, well loved yet sometimes dangerous neighbor makes solving the magpie-human conflict very complicated. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive guide to everything that is known about this bird, why it attacks, and what we can do about it. |
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Page 150 - Song sharing in a group-living songbird, the Australian magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen. Part III. Sex specificity and individual specificity of vocal parts in communal chorus and duet songs. Behaviour 118, 244-274.
Page 150 - Veltman, CJ (1988) Song sharing in a group-living songbird, the Australian magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen. Part I.
Page 150 - Macrogeographic variation in alarm calls of the Australian magpie Gymnorhina tibicen. Bird Behaviour 9: 64-68. •Brown, ED, Farabaugh, SM and Hughes, JM (1993) A test of centre-edge hypotheses in a permanently territorial songbird, the Australian magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen.
Page 150 - Social and Ecological Factors in Population Regulation of the Australian Magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen.
Page 150 - Ethogram of the Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen} in comparison to other Cracticidae and Corvus species.