What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 87
... plants , and native fruits and berries , procured mostly on the ground . NEST . A frail structure of thin twigs , portions of climbing plants , and sometimes grass . Frequently placed in a low bush or tree in the scrub . EGGS . Usually ...
... plants , and native fruits and berries , procured mostly on the ground . NEST . A frail structure of thin twigs , portions of climbing plants , and sometimes grass . Frequently placed in a low bush or tree in the scrub . EGGS . Usually ...
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... plants . NEST . A hollowed - out chamber in a termites ' mound on the ground , entered through a narrow tunnel . EGGS . Three to five , white . Breeding - season : usually August to December , and as late as March or April . 4. Red ...
... plants . NEST . A hollowed - out chamber in a termites ' mound on the ground , entered through a narrow tunnel . EGGS . Three to five , white . Breeding - season : usually August to December , and as late as March or April . 4. Red ...
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... plants and animals . NEST . An open , bulky structure , composed of aquatic plants ; lined with the sheaths and leaves of reeds ; built in a bunch of reeds or on top of a low bush growing in water . Some nests have rough pathways of ...
... plants and animals . NEST . An open , bulky structure , composed of aquatic plants ; lined with the sheaths and leaves of reeds ; built in a bunch of reeds or on top of a low bush growing in water . Some nests have rough pathways of ...
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