What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 233
... Zealand . NOTES . Also called Great Crested Grebe , Tippet Grebe , Loon , Gaunt , and Carr Goose . Usually singly or in pairs , frequenting lakes , streams , and swamps . It is partly a migrant , wintering in the warmer latitudes and ...
... Zealand . NOTES . Also called Great Crested Grebe , Tippet Grebe , Loon , Gaunt , and Carr Goose . Usually singly or in pairs , frequenting lakes , streams , and swamps . It is partly a migrant , wintering in the warmer latitudes and ...
Page 270
... 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 , the eastern Indian Ocean , and Pacific Ocean to Japan and California . NOTES . Also called Mutton - bird , Pale - faced Shearwater , and Fleshy- footed Petrel . Usually arrives off our coasts during September or November ...
... Zealand , the eastern Indian Ocean , and Pacific Ocean to Japan and California . NOTES . Also called Mutton - bird , Pale - faced Shearwater , and Fleshy- footed Petrel . Usually arrives off our coasts during September or November ...
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 Breeding-season brown call-note called Cape York cobwebs colour composed of dried composed of sticks cup-shaped structure DISTRIBUTION dome-shaped structure dried grasses eastern EGGS eucalypts feet Female Food freckled frequenting chiefly Gould grey ground Guinea habits and economy herbage 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 north-western Australia northern Australia Northern Queensland Northern Territory NOTES numbers October to January pairs or flocks pairs or small pale Parrot plants pure white 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 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