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There has been a considerable focus on behavioural flexibility and innovative exploitation of novel anthropogenic food resources in avian synurbanization, but the possible influence of preadaptation has received less attention. Interspecific interference competition may be a significant influence on synurbanization, but its influence has also not been very widely examined. Accordingly, we studied Galahs Eolophus […]

Seven sources, the BirdLife Australia Atlas database, birdlists submitted to eBird, the Atlas of Living Australia, the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service Wildnet database, Birding-Aus, personal observations and personal communications to me, provided 142 unique records of the occurrence of the Striated Grasswren Amytornis striatus in central Queensland. These records were mapped to define the […]

The identification of nest predators provides a better understanding of how particular predators and their foraging modes shape the evolution of anti-predator behaviours in nesting birds. We monitored nests of the Pink Robin Petroica rodinogaster, Flame Robin P. phoenicia, Grey Fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa, Tasmanian Thornbill Acanthiza ewingii and Brown Thornbill A. pusilla in Tasmania to […]

This paper examines flute-like territorial songs and other vocalisations of Superb Lyrebirds Menura novaehollandiae in forests of the New South Wales North Coast and New England Tableland Bioregions, based on >90 hours of recordings made from 1970 to 2014. Songs from a 1920s flute-mimicking lyrebird allegedly spread outwards from a fixed point at Allans Water. […]