What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 94
... reddish - brown . Breeding - season : July to Novem- ber ; May and June ; or after rain . 9. Fuscous Honey - eater Meliphaga fusca Gould fus ' - ca - L . , fuscus , brown . Distribution . - Eastern Australia , from Queensland to South ...
... reddish - brown . Breeding - season : July to Novem- ber ; May and June ; or after rain . 9. Fuscous Honey - eater Meliphaga fusca Gould fus ' - ca - L . , fuscus , brown . Distribution . - Eastern Australia , from Queensland to South ...
Page 208
... reddish- brown , and a few purplish - brown markings . Breeding - season : September to December . 7. Brown Hawk Falco berigora Vigors and Horsfield berigora - the native name of this bird . Distribution . - Australia generally , and ...
... reddish- brown , and a few purplish - brown markings . Breeding - season : September to December . 7. Brown Hawk Falco berigora Vigors and Horsfield berigora - the native name of this bird . Distribution . - Australia generally , and ...
Page 251
... reddish - brown , intermingled with underlying markings of greyish - violet and greyish - blue , forming a zone at the larger end where there are a few surface spots and streaks of dark blackish - brown ( Calidris canutus ) . Breeding ...
... reddish - brown , intermingled with underlying markings of greyish - violet and greyish - blue , forming a zone at the larger end where there are a few surface spots and streaks of dark blackish - brown ( Calidris canutus ) . Breeding ...
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