What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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... Zealand , to the coast of South America . Notes . Also called Smaller Diving - petrel and Common Diving - petrel . Usually seen singly or in small scattered flocks , resting on the surface of the water , or diving for its food , which ...
... Zealand , to the coast of South America . Notes . Also called Smaller Diving - petrel and Common Diving - petrel . Usually seen singly or in small scattered flocks , resting on the surface of the water , or diving for its food , which ...
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... Zealand to southern Australia and Tasmania . Notes . Also called Victoria Penguin and Big - crested Penguin . This species breeds on the coast of New Zealand and on Stewart Island and Snares Island . The Australian records are few , the ...
... Zealand to southern Australia and Tasmania . Notes . Also called Victoria Penguin and Big - crested Penguin . This species breeds on the coast of New Zealand and on Stewart Island and Snares Island . The Australian records are few , the ...
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... Zealand , and the Pacific Ocean to the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea . Notes . Also called Mutton - bird , Seal - bird , Whale - bird , Sooty Shearwater , Bonaparte's Shearwater , and Slender - billed Petrel . Arrives in immense flocks ...
... Zealand , and the Pacific Ocean to the Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea . Notes . Also called Mutton - bird , Seal - bird , Whale - bird , Sooty Shearwater , Bonaparte's Shearwater , and Slender - billed Petrel . Arrives in immense flocks ...
Contents
BIRDS OF THE LAKES STREAMS AND SWAMPS | 217 |
BIRDS OF THE OCEAN AND SHORE | 251 |
BIRDS INTRODUCED AND ESTABLISHED IN AUSTRALIA | 291 |
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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.-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 large north-western Australia 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