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Recovery Round-up: Volume 11 – Issue 4

Posted: 23/09/2021
Author(s): Alan Leishman

Bird in the Hand: GREY BUTCHERBIRD Cracticus torquatus

Posted: 23/09/2021
Author(s): W. E. BOLES

DATA RECORD CARDS: THEIR HISTORY AND METHOD OF USE

Posted: 23/09/2021
Author(s): S. G. LANE

SEASONAL VARIATION IN HEAD-BILL LENGTH FOR THE EASTERN SPINEBILL Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris AT BARREN GROUNDS NATURE RESERVE, NEW SOUTH WALES

Posted: 23/09/2021
Author(s): RICHARD JORDAN

Head-bill length (HB) was measured for all Eastern Sp1nebills captured at Barren Grounds Nature Reserve over a 16-month period. HB for adult males was always greater than for adult females at any given time of the year. Mean HB for both males and females showed a seasonal variation. There was a maximum in midwinter and […]

DESCRIPTION OF SOME NEONATAL PASSERINES IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Posted: 23/09/2021
Author(s): M. G. BROOKER and L. C. BROOKER

OLIVES AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE PLUMAGE OF SPOTTED TURTLE-DOVES Streptopelia chinensis AND CRESTED PIGEONS Ocyphaps lophotes IN SUBURBAN ADELAIDE

Posted: 23/09/2021
Author(s): DAVID C. PATON and PENELOPE A. PATON

During winter Crested Pigeons Ocyphaps lophotes and Spotted Turtle-Doves Streptopelia chinensis often develop dark-brownish plumage in suburban Adelaide. Up to 80 per cent of pigeons and doves censused in the Gilberton area developed darker plumage. This darkening coincided with the presence of European olives Olea europea in the birds’ diets. We argue that these pigeons […]

THE POPULATION STATUS, LONGEVITY AND MORTALITY OF THE WHITE-RUMPED SWIFTLET IN FIJI

Posted: 23/09/2021
Author(s): M. K. TARBURTON

The population size of the White-rumped Swiftlet Aerodramus spodiopygius in five Fijian caves has been estimated by up to five methods. The averages of these methods for 1974 are: Dry Cave, 413: Waterfall Cave, 20 994: Ono Cave, west entrance, 345: east entrance, 10 365: Waiyala Cave, 8 430: Cikobia-i-lau, 210. The largest annual average […]

Seabird Islands: No. 179 – Bellinger Island, Archipelago of the Recherche, Western Australia

Posted: 22/09/2021
Author(s): L. A. Smith and R. E. Johnstone

Seabird Islands: No. 178 – Six Mile Island, Archipelago of the Recherche, Western Australia

Posted: 22/09/2021
Author(s): R. E. Johnstone and L. A. Smith

ADDENDUM The following paragraph was inadvertently omitted from Vol. 11, Number 3, page 94 (Seabird Islands No. 178, Six Mile Island, Archipelago of the Recherche, Western Australia). Stema bergii Crested Tern – About 1 000 pairs nest on the central part of the island on bare granite and shell grit, and on Carpobrotus. On 8 […]

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