Mixed species feeding flocks were studied in dry sclerophyll forest at Black Mountain Nature Reserve, Australian Capital Territory. Twenty-three species were observed in mixed flecks. Species are grouped according to foraging pattern and details of the composition of the flocks is given.
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A Colour-banding Study of Welcome Swallows Breeding in Southern Tasmania
Posted: 20/10/2021The breeding of a group of individually colour-banded Welcome Swallows Hirundo neoxena was studied at Campania in southern Tasmania over a period of five years during the time between their arrival each spring to their departure in the autumn.
Read MoreAuxiliary at the Nest of the Blue-faced Honeyeater
Posted: 20/10/2021Notes on the Nest and Eggs of the Australasian Grebe in north-western Victoria
Posted: 20/10/2021A description of the nests and eggs of Australasian Grebes is given. based on a sample of 70 nests recorded in Wyperfeld National Park, north-western Victoria. The results are compared with published data on the breeding of the Little Grebe in Europe.
Read MoreObservations of Breeding Success in White-faced Storm-Petrel at a Newly Established Colony
Posted: 20/10/2021The establishment and decline of a breeding colony of White-faced Storm-Petrels Pelagodroma marina at Fisher Island in the Furneaux Islands, Tasmania was observed from 1973 to 1977. An attempt was made to follow the success of breeding in the colony in its first years and also to gather information to compare this colony with long […]
Read MoreRecovery Round-up: Volume 5 – Issue 1
Posted: 20/10/2021The Breeding Season at Moruya, New South Wales
Posted: 20/10/2021Results of a study of birds breeding in forest habitat near Moruya N.S.W. for four seasons from 1975 to 1978 are presented. The breeding season of birds studied is rather short and sharply defined, and occurs between early August and late December.
Read MoreSurvey of Birds on Floodplain-estuarine Wetlands on the Hunter and Richmond Rivers in Northern N.S.W.
Posted: 20/10/2021A systematic account of birds observed on wetlands of the Hunter and Richmond Rivers between 1970 and 1977 is given. Numbers of migratory waders and terns on the estuaries were highest between December and early March, and were lowest between late June to early August. Marked annual and seasonal variation in waterbird numbers were observed. […]
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