What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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... feet from the ground . This species often nests in the same tree as the Drongo or the Helmeted Friar - bird . Eggs . Usually three , greenish to greenish - white or greenish - brown , spotted and blotched with reddish - brown or ...
... feet from the ground . This species often nests in the same tree as the Drongo or the Helmeted Friar - bird . Eggs . Usually three , greenish to greenish - white or greenish - brown , spotted and blotched with reddish - brown or ...
Page 38
... 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 ...
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