What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 87
... low bush or tree in the scrub . EGGS . Usually two , pure white . Breeding - season : August to March . 4. Plumed ... low , scrubby bushes and spinifex . It is remarkably tame and difficult to flush from the ground . Food : seeds of ...
... low bush or tree in the scrub . EGGS . Usually two , pure white . Breeding - season : August to March . 4. Plumed ... low , scrubby bushes and spinifex . It is remarkably tame and difficult to flush from the ground . Food : seeds of ...
Page 134
... low bush or shrub or in a tuft of long grass . EGGS . Three or four , white , sparingly spotted with reddish - purple markings . Breeding - season : October to December ( east ) ; July to March ( west ) . 18. Orange Chat Epthianura ...
... low bush or shrub or in a tuft of long grass . EGGS . Three or four , white , sparingly spotted with reddish - purple markings . Breeding - season : October to December ( east ) ; July to March ( west ) . 18. Orange Chat Epthianura ...
Page 177
... bush , blue - bush , and low scrub - lands . It is shy and very cautious , running mouse - like over the ground among the herbage . Call - note , a sweet and melodious song . Food : insects of various kinds , procured on the ground or ...
... bush , blue - bush , and low scrub - lands . It is shy and very cautious , running mouse - like over the ground among the herbage . Call - note , a sweet and melodious song . Food : insects of various kinds , procured on the ground or ...
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