What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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A Guide to the Birds of Australia Neville William Cayley. consists of birds and their young . The female is considerably larger than the male . Nest . - A small , flat structure , composed of sticks , and lined with leaves . Placed among ...
A Guide to the Birds of Australia Neville William Cayley. consists of birds and their young . The female is considerably larger than the male . Nest . - A small , flat structure , composed of sticks , and lined with leaves . Placed among ...
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... consists almost entirely of living fish , caught by plunging from above and grasping them with its talons . Nest . - A large and bulky structure , composed of sticks ; lined with seaweed and occasionally with palm - leaves . Generally ...
... consists almost entirely of living fish , caught by plunging from above and grasping them with its talons . Nest . - A large and bulky structure , composed of sticks ; lined with seaweed and occasionally with palm - leaves . Generally ...
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... structure , composed of small mangrove sticks and twigs ; placed in a mangrove tree , at heights up to 15 feet from the ground . Eggs . Three or four , deep blue - green . Breeding - season : April ( or March to May ) . 22. Black ...
... structure , composed of small mangrove sticks and twigs ; placed in a mangrove tree , at heights up to 15 feet from the ground . Eggs . Three or four , deep blue - green . Breeding - season : April ( or March to May ) . 22. Black ...
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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