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... ( Australian ) . Distribution . - Australia ( except central Australia ) and Tasmania . Notes . Also called Australian Painted Snipe and Australian Rhynchæa . Usually in pairs , frequenting the margins of swamps and streams , more ...
... ( Australian ) . Distribution . - Australia ( except central Australia ) and Tasmania . Notes . Also called Australian Painted Snipe and Australian Rhynchæa . Usually in pairs , frequenting the margins of swamps and streams , more ...
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... Distribution . - Australia generally , and Tasmania ; also occurs in Java , Borneo to New Guinea , New Caledonia ... Australia ) ; May and June ( northern Australia ) . 24. White - breasted Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscescens Vieillot fus ...
... Distribution . - Australia generally , and Tasmania ; also occurs in Java , Borneo to New Guinea , New Caledonia ... Australia ) ; May and June ( northern Australia ) . 24. White - breasted Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscescens Vieillot fus ...
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... Distribution . - Siberia , migrating southwards to Australia ( except southern Australia ) . Notes . Usually in flocks , arriving in Australia during September , departing in March . It frequents alike salt marshes and swampy areas ...
... Distribution . - Siberia , migrating southwards to Australia ( except southern Australia ) . Notes . Usually in flocks , arriving in Australia during September , departing in March . It frequents alike salt marshes and swampy areas ...
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Aru Islands August to December Bass Strait big scrubs bird branch Breeding-season brown call-note called Cape York cobwebs colour composed of dried composed of sticks Distribution.-Australia Distribution.-Northern Queensland dried grasses dull eastern Eggs Eggs.-Four Eggs.-Two Eggs.-Usually eucalypts feet Female Food forked freckled frequenting chiefly frequenting open Gould ground Guinea habits and economy hollow limb Honey-eater inhabiting insects insects of various Islands larger end larvæ Latham limb or hole low bush mangroves Molucca Islands native fruits Nest Nest.-A Nest.-A large north-western Australia northern Queensland Northern Territory Notes numbers 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 Australia 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