What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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... Nest . - A deep , open , cup - shaped structure , composed of strips of stringy - bark , bark - fibre , or paper bark , interwoven with leaves ; occasion- ally it is decorated with lichen and spiders ' webs and egg - bags ; lined with ...
... Nest . - A deep , open , cup - shaped structure , composed of strips of stringy - bark , bark - fibre , or paper bark , interwoven with leaves ; occasion- ally it is decorated with lichen and spiders ' webs and egg - bags ; lined with ...
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... Nest . A neatly made , purse - shaped structure , composed of grasses and rootlets , neatly woven together with ... open forest country . It is very pugnacious , and has a rather loud and monotonous call - note which it frequently utters .
... Nest . A neatly made , purse - shaped structure , composed of grasses and rootlets , neatly woven together with ... open forest country . It is very pugnacious , and has a rather loud and monotonous call - note which it frequently utters .
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... open forest and mallee country . Similar in habits to the Noisy Miner . Food : chiefly insects ; also native fruits and berries , procured both on the ground or in the ... Nest . - An open , cup - shaped structure 82 THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA.
... open forest and mallee country . Similar in habits to the Noisy Miner . Food : chiefly insects ; also native fruits and berries , procured both on the ground or in the ... Nest . - An open , cup - shaped structure 82 THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA.
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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