What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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Page 94
... reddish - brown . Breeding - season : July to Novem- ber ; May and June ; or after rain . 9. Fuscous Honey - eater Meliphaga fusca Gould fus ' - ca - L . , fuscus , brown . DISTRIBUTION . Eastern Australia , from Queensland to South Aus ...
... reddish - brown . Breeding - season : July to Novem- ber ; May and June ; or after rain . 9. Fuscous Honey - eater Meliphaga fusca Gould fus ' - ca - L . , fuscus , brown . DISTRIBUTION . Eastern Australia , from Queensland to South Aus ...
Page 208
... reddish- brown , and a few purplish - brown markings . Breeding - season : Septem- ber to December . 7. Brown Hawk Falco berigora Vigors and Horsfield berigora - the native name of this bird . DISTRIBUTION . Australia generally , and ...
... reddish- brown , and a few purplish - brown markings . Breeding - season : Septem- ber to December . 7. Brown Hawk Falco berigora Vigors and Horsfield berigora - the native name of this bird . DISTRIBUTION . Australia generally , and ...
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... reddish - brown , intermingled with underlying markings of greyish- violet and greyish - blue , forming a zone at the larger end where there are a few surface spots and streaks of dark blackish - brown ( Calidris canutus ) . Breeding ...
... reddish - brown , intermingled with underlying markings of greyish- violet and greyish - blue , forming a zone at the larger end where there are a few surface spots and streaks of dark blackish - brown ( Calidris canutus ) . Breeding ...
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