What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 65
... call is frequently uttered ; in addition it has a succession of sweet and high- pitched call - notes . NEST ... note , a single " Ko " or " Koo " , very softly uttered . Another description is a plaintive whistling note like a faint ...
... call is frequently uttered ; in addition it has a succession of sweet and high- pitched call - notes . NEST ... note , a single " Ko " or " Koo " , very softly uttered . Another description is a plaintive whistling note like a faint ...
Page 131
... NOTES . Also called Black - banded White - face . Usually in pairs or flocks , frequenting open country . It is similar in habits to the other White - faces , but its call - note is different and much sweeter . Food : insects and seeds ...
... NOTES . Also called Black - banded White - face . Usually in pairs or flocks , frequenting open country . It is similar in habits to the other White - faces , but its call - note is different and much sweeter . Food : insects and seeds ...
Page 227
... NOTES . Usually in pairs or flocks , frequenting the margins of swamps , lagoons , and streams . It is nomadic , although odd pairs will remain in a district throughout the year . The call - note of this species resembles " Keerk ...
... NOTES . Usually in pairs or flocks , frequenting the margins of swamps , lagoons , and streams . It is nomadic , although odd pairs will remain in a district throughout the year . The call - note of this species resembles " Keerk ...
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 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