What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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... feet ; a similar but smaller pile is then built around the foot of the other tree . The space between is arched over with stems of climbing plants , and the walls are decorated with pieces of green moss , ferns , orchids , flowers of ...
... feet ; a similar but smaller pile is then built around the foot of the other tree . The space between is arched over with stems of climbing plants , and the walls are decorated with pieces of green moss , ferns , orchids , flowers of ...
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... feet in diameter , by about 3 feet in height ; an old one may measure as much as 30 feet in diameter by 6 feet in height . Nesting mounds are repaired ( scratched 2 . 5 . 1.A. 3 . 2.A. 4 . 38 THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA.
... feet in diameter , by about 3 feet in height ; an old one may measure as much as 30 feet in diameter by 6 feet in height . Nesting mounds are repaired ( scratched 2 . 5 . 1.A. 3 . 2.A. 4 . 38 THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA.
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... feet or more from the ground . Eggs . Usually one , pale creamy - white , covered with a tangled net- work of lines and hair - like markings of olive - brown , umber , purplish- grey , and blackish - brown . Breeding - season ...
... feet or more from the ground . Eggs . Usually one , pale creamy - white , covered with a tangled net- work of lines and hair - like markings of olive - brown , umber , purplish- grey , and blackish - brown . Breeding - season ...
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Aru Islands August to December Bass Strait big scrubs bird branch Breeding-season brown call-note called Cape York cobwebs composed of dried composed of sticks Distribution.-Australia Distribution.-Northern Distribution.-Northern Queensland dried grasses Eggs Eggs.-Four Eggs.-Three or four Eggs.-Two Eggs.-Usually eucalypts feet Female Food forked freckled frequenting chiefly 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 depression Nest.-A large Nest.-An open 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