What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 196
... grass or low thickets . It has a few notes which are uttered in an undertone . Food : seeds of grasses and herbaceous plants . NEST . A bottle - shaped structure , composed of dried grasses ; lined with finer materials . Generally ...
... grass or low thickets . It has a few notes which are uttered in an undertone . Food : seeds of grasses and herbaceous plants . NEST . A bottle - shaped structure , composed of dried grasses ; lined with finer materials . Generally ...
Page 198
... grasses and other plants . NEST . A large , bottle - shaped structure , composed of dried grasses ; lined with finer grasses and a few feathers . Generally built in tall grass or a low bush . EGGS . Four to six , white . Breeding ...
... grasses and other plants . NEST . A large , bottle - shaped structure , composed of dried grasses ; lined with finer grasses and a few feathers . Generally built in tall grass or a low bush . EGGS . Four to six , white . Breeding ...
Page 198
... dried grasses , plant - stalks , and tendrils ; lined with finer grasses and other soft materials . Generally placed in a low bush , often one entangled with vines , in a tuft of tall grass , or among a growth of tall weeds . EGGS ...
... dried grasses , plant - stalks , and tendrils ; lined with finer grasses and other soft materials . Generally placed in a low bush , often one entangled with vines , in a tuft of tall grass , or among a growth of tall weeds . EGGS ...
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