Field Guide to the Birds of Australia: The Most Complete One-volume Book of IdentificationFourth edition of a portable field guide which accompanies the fourth edition of TBirds of Australia'. Revised and expanded to include an illustrated rare bird bulletin, an Australian island territories checklist, 52 additional or replacement black-and-white drawings, and changes to 93 distribution maps. Also provides information on the taxonomy, habitat and biology of each bird family as well as covering such topics as prehistoric birds, and DNA-DNA hybridisation. Referenced and indexed. |
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Page 148
... Cuckoo Cuculus saturatus Large cuckoo . Grey above ; paler grey breast . Whitish belly , barred black . Eye - ring , bill base , legs bright yellow . Long , dark grey tail , spotted on edges , tipped white . Primaries grey , barred ...
... Cuckoo Cuculus saturatus Large cuckoo . Grey above ; paler grey breast . Whitish belly , barred black . Eye - ring , bill base , legs bright yellow . Long , dark grey tail , spotted on edges , tipped white . Primaries grey , barred ...
Page 333
... Cuckoo has earned it the colloquial name of ' brain fever bird ' . All Australian species ( except the Pheasant Coucal ) are parasitic on a wide variety of native birds . Most cuckoos are insectivorous . The Fan - tailed and bronze - ...
... Cuckoo has earned it the colloquial name of ' brain fever bird ' . All Australian species ( except the Pheasant Coucal ) are parasitic on a wide variety of native birds . Most cuckoos are insectivorous . The Fan - tailed and bronze - ...
Page 357
... Cuckoo - shrike Orioles and figbirds build strong , deep , cup -. The Handbook Cuckoo - shrikes and Trillers Family Campephagidae [ Subfamily Corvinae within Family Corvidae of Sibley & Ahlquist contains ( at first appearances ) a ...
... Cuckoo - shrike Orioles and figbirds build strong , deep , cup -. The Handbook Cuckoo - shrikes and Trillers Family Campephagidae [ Subfamily Corvinae within Family Corvidae of Sibley & Ahlquist contains ( at first appearances ) a ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 5 |
Museum of Victoria Arthur Rylah Institute Bird Observers Club of Australia Royal | 326 |
Editor | 392 |
Copyright | |
Common terms and phrases
abdomen adult Albatross areas Aust Australia belly Bill black birds blackish blue Bowerbird Breeding seasons variable Brown Goshawk buff chestnut colour Corvidae crest crown Cuckoo dark brown dark grey darker Duck duller ear coverts edge eggs Egret eucalypt eye-ring Fairy-wren Family feed flanks flight RAOU Atlas Flycatcher forehead Frigatebird genus Gerygone grasslands green grey-brown Gull Habitat Habitat coastal Habitat open forests Habitat rainforests head Honeyeater Island Legs lores Lyrebird Magpie-lark Male mallee mangroves Migrates morph mottled moult nape neck nest nightjars Non-breeding oceanic olive-brown pale grey paler Pardalote Parrot Parvorder Passerida patch Petrel Plains-wanderer Plover plumage Prion Race rainforests RAOU Atlas Robin rufous rump Sandpiper Shearwater shrublands Sibley & Ahlquist species spotted Storm-Petrel streaked stripe Subfamily swamps Tern Thornbill throat tipped white trees Underparts white undertail coverts upper breast upperparts Vagr Vagrant Ventral flight whistle whitish wing bar woodlands yellow