What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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... cobwebs , and lined with finer materials ; the tail - piece is about 2 to 3 inches in length . Built on a horizontal thin branch of a tree up to 20 feet or more from the ground . Eggs . - Two , sometimes three , stone or buff - coloured ...
... cobwebs , and lined with finer materials ; the tail - piece is about 2 to 3 inches in length . Built on a horizontal thin branch of a tree up to 20 feet or more from the ground . Eggs . - Two , sometimes three , stone or buff - coloured ...
Page 57
... cobwebs . Some nests are decorated on the outside with small pieces of bark . Usually built in the angle of a forked horizontal branch of a tree . Eggs . - Usually three , olive - green to pale olive - brown , spotted , chiefly on the ...
... cobwebs . Some nests are decorated on the outside with small pieces of bark . Usually built in the angle of a forked horizontal branch of a tree . Eggs . - Usually three , olive - green to pale olive - brown , spotted , chiefly on the ...
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... cobwebs ; lined with hair , fur , feathers , or other soft materials . Generally built in a forked . limb or on a horizontal branch of a low tree . Often the nest is placed between a piece of projecting bark and the trunk of a tree ...
... cobwebs ; lined with hair , fur , feathers , or other soft materials . Generally built in a forked . limb or on a horizontal branch of a low tree . Often the nest is placed between a piece of projecting bark and the trunk of a tree ...
Contents
BIRDS OF THE LAKES STREAMS AND SWAMPS | 217 |
BIRDS OF THE OCEAN AND SHORE | 251 |
BIRDS INTRODUCED AND ESTABLISHED IN AUSTRALIA | 291 |
Common terms and phrases
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