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Page 95
... silver - eyes , which also eat berries , this passage took thirty to eighty minutes . This also means that if the birds fly fifty miles per hour , the most they would travel in this time would be about sixty miles . Probably on the ...
... silver - eyes , which also eat berries , this passage took thirty to eighty minutes . This also means that if the birds fly fifty miles per hour , the most they would travel in this time would be about sixty miles . Probably on the ...
Page 96
... Silver - eyes , although small and plump , are good flyers . Many of the Tasmanian silver - eyes fly north to the mainland in winter and return to nest in spring . Silver - eyes crossed the Tasman in the 1850s and established themselves ...
... Silver - eyes , although small and plump , are good flyers . Many of the Tasmanian silver - eyes fly north to the mainland in winter and return to nest in spring . Silver - eyes crossed the Tasman in the 1850s and established themselves ...
Page 103
... silver - eyes neatly laid out on broken twigs of an olive tree . The bodies were gone ; only the heads remained like some kind of mediaeval ' traitors ' gate ' . Besides birds captured in the bush , the butcher - birds prey on cage ...
... silver - eyes neatly laid out on broken twigs of an olive tree . The bodies were gone ; only the heads remained like some kind of mediaeval ' traitors ' gate ' . Besides birds captured in the bush , the butcher - birds prey on cage ...
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Aborigines animals areas baby bandicoots Bass Strait bats beak best known birds blue body breeding brown burrows called captivity chicks coast colour common name creature crocodiles crow David Fleay dingo dolphins dragon eaten echidna egg-laying eggs feathers feed feet female freshwater frogs geckoes giant glider goannas grass grey ground hatch head hollow honey-eaters huge hunting inches insects islands joey kangaroo killed kinds koala land legless lizards legs live lyrebirds magpie male mammals marsupials miles mother move native naturalist nest noisy scrub-bird normal northern numbat pattern perhaps plants platypus poisonous possum pouch prey python Queensland rats reptiles ring-tail rock scientists scrub-bird seals Silver-eyes skin skinks smaller snake South Australia South Wales southern species swallowed tadpoles tail Tasmania Tasmanian tiger teeth tiger toes tortoises tree turtle victim Victoria wallabies Western Australia whale wings wombats young youngsters