What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 48
... numbers may be seen " hawking " for insects . It has an extraordinary call , difficult to describe . Prefers open forest country , keeping to the ridges separated by thickly timbered gullies . Its food consists of insects , principally ...
... numbers may be seen " hawking " for insects . It has an extraordinary call , difficult to describe . Prefers open forest country , keeping to the ridges separated by thickly timbered gullies . Its food consists of insects , principally ...
Page 55
... numbers of useful species of birds , eating both their eggs and young . NEST . A large , open , roughly formed structure , composed of twigs and sticks ; lined with rootlets , bark - fibre , and other fine materials . Usually built in ...
... numbers of useful species of birds , eating both their eggs and young . NEST . A large , open , roughly formed structure , composed of twigs and sticks ; lined with rootlets , bark - fibre , and other fine materials . Usually built in ...
Page 89
... numbers , chiefly on the Mitchell grass plains , but it is rarely seen now . Its flesh is excellent eating , numbers being killed when visiting the drinking - pools at dusk . When flushed , the flocks rise with a loud whirring noise ...
... numbers , chiefly on the Mitchell grass plains , but it is rarely seen now . Its flesh is excellent eating , numbers being killed when visiting the drinking - pools at dusk . When flushed , the flocks rise with a loud whirring noise ...
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