What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 89
... seeds of grasses and herbaceous plants . Nest . A shallow depression in the ground , lined with soft dead grasses , and often sheltered by a tuft of grass or a low bush . Eggs . Usually two , pale creamy - white . Breeding - season ...
... seeds of grasses and herbaceous plants . Nest . A shallow depression in the ground , lined with soft dead grasses , and often sheltered by a tuft of grass or a low bush . Eggs . Usually two , pale creamy - white . Breeding - season ...
Page 144
... grass- lands . It is more often seen on the ground than in trees . The call - note is a pleasing whistle , almost a song , which is uttered while the bird is perched in a tree or when in flight . Food : seeds of grasses and other plants ...
... grass- lands . It is more often seen on the ground than in trees . The call - note is a pleasing whistle , almost a song , which is uttered while the bird is perched in a tree or when in flight . Food : seeds of grasses and other plants ...
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... seeds of grasses and other plants . Nest . A flimsy , bottle - shaped structure , composed of dried grasses , chiefly spinifex stems ; lined with plant down . Generally placed in a natural cavity near the top of a clump of spinifex , or ...
... seeds of grasses and other plants . Nest . A flimsy , bottle - shaped structure , composed of dried grasses , chiefly spinifex stems ; lined with plant down . Generally placed in a natural cavity near the top of a clump of spinifex , or ...
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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