What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 198
... dried grasses ; lined with finer grasses . Generally built in a bush or tree in thick foliage , sometimes in the outer loose material of the nest of an Eagle . Eggs . - Four to seven , white . Breeding - season : August to December or ...
... dried grasses ; lined with finer grasses . Generally built in a bush or tree in thick foliage , sometimes in the outer loose material of the nest of an Eagle . Eggs . - Four to seven , white . Breeding - season : August to December or ...
Page 198
... dried grasses , plant - stalks , and tendrils ; lined with finer grasses and other soft materials . Generally placed in a low bush , often one entangled with vines , in a tuft of tall grass , or among a growth of tall weeds . Eggs ...
... dried grasses , plant - stalks , and tendrils ; lined with finer grasses and other soft materials . Generally placed in a low bush , often one entangled with vines , in a tuft of tall grass , or among a growth of tall weeds . Eggs ...
Page 201
... dried grasses , twigs , and leaves of small plants ; lined with fine hair - like seed - tops of grasses . Generally built in tall grass , a bush , or in a pandanus palm - tree . Eggs . - Six to nine , white , often tinged with faint ...
... dried grasses , twigs , and leaves of small plants ; lined with fine hair - like seed - tops of grasses . Generally built in tall grass , a bush , or in a pandanus palm - tree . Eggs . - Six to nine , white , often tinged with faint ...
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