What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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... structure , composed of dried stalks of flower- ing plants , matted together with cobwebs , the inner portion consisting entirely of fine dried tendrils of plants . Built in the angle of a thin hori- zontal forked branch of a bushy tree ...
... structure , composed of dried stalks of flower- ing plants , matted together with cobwebs , the inner portion consisting entirely of fine dried tendrils of plants . Built in the angle of a thin hori- zontal forked branch of a bushy tree ...
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... structure , composed of dried grasses ; lined with finer grasses and a few feathers . Generally built in tall grass or a low bush . Eggs . - Four to six , white . January . Breeding - season : probably July to 11. Pictorella Finch ...
... structure , composed of dried grasses ; lined with finer grasses and a few feathers . Generally built in tall grass or a low bush . Eggs . - Four to six , white . January . Breeding - season : probably July to 11. Pictorella Finch ...
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... structure , composed of dried grasses ; lined with feathers . Generally built in tall grass , a low bush , or a small tree . Eggs . - Five to nine , white . Breeding - season : August to December . 16. Black - tailed Finch Poëphila ...
... structure , composed of dried grasses ; lined with feathers . Generally built in tall grass , a low bush , or a small tree . Eggs . - Five to nine , white . Breeding - season : August to December . 16. Black - tailed Finch Poëphila ...
Common terms and phrases
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