Welcome Swallows Hirundo neoxena breeding in eleven sites less than or equal to 12 kilometres apart in southern Victoria were studied over three successive seasons. Many aspects of nest use and egg production and survival agreed with information derived from a compendium of records for other temperate Australian localities. However, signifi cant seasonal differences occurred […]
Read MoreSexual size dimorphism and geographic variation in body size in a group-living, insectivorous passerine: Hall’s Babbler Pomatostomus halli
Posted: 25/03/2021Sexual size dimorphism in birds is widely used by ornithologists to identify the sex of individuals using linear discriminant analysis of morphological measurements. The feasibility of using this approach for the sexually monochromatic Hall’s Babbler Pomatostomus halli using 154 genetically-sexed individuals from a single population was investigated. In addition, geographic variation in size was examined […]
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