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Bird in the Hand: Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Acanthagenys rufogularis
Posted: 02/10/2021Age Changes in the Spines of the Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater
Posted: 02/10/2021A Re-appraisal of the Dimensions of Male Forest Ravens
Posted: 02/10/2021Some Notes on the Plumage Phases of the Glossy Black-Cockatoo
Posted: 02/10/2021Specimens of the Glossy Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami were examined to elucidate sex and age plumage phases. Under field conditions, adult females are the most readily recognizable form. An unbarred red subterminal tail band indicates that a bird is male and probably adult or nearly so, and some such individuals may have a few yellow head […]
Read MoreNotes on the Breeding of Varied Sittellas Daphoenositta chrysoptera
Posted: 02/10/2021Two nests of Varied Sittellas Daphoenosltta chrysoptera were watched near Moruya. New South Wales for about 125 hours in 1982, one from laying of eggs to fledging of young and the other from’ the middle of incubation to fledging. Both incubation and nestling periods were 20 days. Though individual birds were not identifiable, probably the […]
Read MoreLittle Tern Breeding Colony on Artificial Site at Port Botany, New South Wales
Posted: 02/10/2021In 1979 I became aware of a colony of Little Tern Sterna albifrons breeding on the partly developed artificial site at Port Botany, New South Wales. The colony was studied in 1980-81, 1981-82 and 1982-83 to determine breeding success, to collect data relating to the artificial site, and to identify factors that threatened the colony. […]
Read MoreSinging behaviour of male Rufous Scrub-birds in the New South Wales Gloucester Tops
Posted: 30/09/2021Monitoring programs for the endangered, cryptic Rufous Scrub–bird, Atrichornis rufescens are mainly based upon detecting singing males on their territories, but a problem with this approach is that little is known about singing activity variation during the year and therefore which are the optimal months for monitoring. We attempted to rectify this deficiency by documenting […]
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