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Use of alula shape for ageing Noisy Miners Manorina melanocephala: a critical evaluation

Posted: 16/04/2018
Author(s): Jacob A. T. Vickers, Richard E. Major, Walter E. Boles and Kris French

We evaluated the use of the shape of the longest alula feather as an ageing characteristic for Noisy Miners Manorina melanocephala through the examination of 316 mature and 147 immature individuals that were independently aged using internal characteristics. Our results contrast with those of a previous study that suggested that the shape of the alula […]

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An example of a “Twinkling Lights” local extinction event: population dynamics of Gilbert’s Whistler at The Charcoal Tank Nature Reserve, New South Wales

Posted: 03/04/2018
Author(s): Anthony Hunt, Peter Ewin and Mark Clayton

A banding project at The Charcoal Tank Nature Reserve in central west New South Wales has accumulated data on the bird populations utilising this small, isolated patch of remnant mallee-ironbark/box woodland for more than thirty years. The Reserve supported a small, resident sub-population of Gilbert’s Whistler Pachycephala inornata when the study commenced, but several years […]

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Predation of an adult Russet-tailed Thrush on its nest by a Carpet Python and a review of snake predation of adult birds

Posted: 03/04/2018
Author(s): Richard A. Noske and Phillip A. Robson

The literature on predation of birds’ eggs and nestlings is voluminous, but there are few published records of predation of adult birds in Australia by animals other than raptors and non-indigenous, carnivorous mammals. Here we report observations of an adult Russet-tailed Thrush Zoothera heinei being consumed on its nest by a Carpet Python Morelia spilota […]

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An historical snapshot of avian assemblages occupying three threatened forest and woodland communities in Scheyville National Park, New South Wales

Posted: 06/03/2018
Author(s): John Farrell, Jeff Hardy and Peter Smith

Scheyville National Park encompasses two threatened woodland communities and one Eucalyptus forest i.e. Cumberland Plain Woodland, Castlereagh Scribbly Gum Woodland and Shale Gravel Transition Forest. It provides habitat for at least 98 bird species. In 1997, banding, plot counts and species lists were used to examine if these floristic communities contained different avian assemblages. Differences […]

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Calls and vocal behaviour of the Black Falcon Falco subniger

Posted: 20/11/2017
Category: Corella
Author(s): S. J. S. Debus, A. L. Bauer and F. W. van Gessel

Some calls of the Black Falcon Falco subniger (adult female cackle calls and begging whines, adult male creaking call) are described and illustrated, together with quantification of calling rates of both sexes at four active nests near Tamworth, NSW. Females were more vocal than males at all stages of the breeding cycle. Black Falcon cackle […]

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Home-range and behaviour of a fledgling Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides in the Australian Capital Territory

Posted: 20/11/2017
Category: Corella
Author(s): J. Olsen, S. Trost, B. Gruber and T. Long

A juvenile Little Eagle Hieraaetus morphnoides was radio-tagged and followed from the day it left the nest until it dispersed 12 weeks later. Two methods, minimum convex polygons (MCP) and kernel analysis, were used to estimate its home range. Home range increased in size progressively over the 12 weeks of the post-fledging period, from 0.001 […]

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Breeding biology, behaviour and foraging ecology of the Black Falcon Falco subniger near Tamworth, New South Wales

Posted: 20/11/2017
Category: Corella
Author(s): S. J. S. Debus, A. L. Bauer and G. I. Mitchell

The breeding biology and behaviour of the Black Falcon Falco subniger were studied in the Tamworth district (northern inland New South Wales) through 146 hours of observation over 47 days in 2015 (one pair, pre-laying to early incubation) and 261 hours of observation over 69 days in 2016 (four pairs, pre-laying to fledging, with checks […]

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Inflated clutch size in the Superb Lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae

Posted: 03/10/2017
Category: Corella
Author(s): Alex C. Maisey, Janet M. Incoll and Sally M. White

Members of the Sherbrooke Lyrebird Survey Group have recorded single-egg clutches as being the norm for the Superb Lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae in Sherbrooke Forest, but occasionally there are two eggs present in a single nest. Here, we report the first record of a three-egg clutch for the Superb Lyrebird. On 20 August 2016, we discovered […]

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