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PIED CURRAWONGS AND SEED DISPERSAL
Posted: 07/09/2021Pied Currawongs congregate around the city of Armidale, New South Wales, in autumn and winter. Five observation periods showed that Pied Currawongs fly a regular route from a roost in the Armidale State Forest to town feeding areas. Birds fed extensively on berries of many ornamental and hedge plants during the day and returned to […]
Read MoreNOTES ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND BIOLOGY OF BOWER’S SHRIKE-THRUSH Colluricincla boweri, A SEXUALLY DIMORPHIC SPECIES
Posted: 07/09/2021Our examination of 56 live Bower’s Shrike-thrushes Colluricincla boweri during 88 captures and of 25 skin specimens showed the species to be sexually monomorphic in size but dimorphic in plumage, contrary to contemporary literature. Adult females have a pale bill and retain the apparently juvenile characters of a rufous superciliary stripe, pale eye-ring feathers and […]
Read MoreA BIRD BANDING STUDY IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, NEW SOUTH WALES 1. OVERVIEW
Posted: 07/09/2021Over eleven years, 1977-1987, 3 450 birds were trapped and banded at Blue Gum Swamp Creek, Winmalee, New South Wales, 724 of which were recovered a total of 1 564 times. The geography of the study site, its vegetation, climate and the local fire regime are documented, together with an overview of the results of […]
Read MoreLiterature Review: Volume 15 – Issue 5
Posted: 16/08/2021Recovery Round-up: Volume 15 – Issue 5
Posted: 16/08/2021UNUSUAL BEHAVIOUR OF A FEMALE ZEBRA FINCH: POSSIBLE EGG DUMPING
Posted: 16/08/2021Book Review: Portrait of a Peninsula: The wildlife of Torndirrup
Posted: 16/08/2021FLUSH BEHAVIOUR, CATCHABILITY AND MORPHOMETRICS OF THE GROUND PARROT Pezoporus wallicus IN SOUTH-EASTERN QUEENSLAND
Posted: 16/08/2021The flush behaviour of the Ground Parrot is described, and the success rates of several netting methods are compared. While netting at nests was the most successful, dusk and group netting yielded the highest capture rates among methods that can be used year round. Of the 115 parrots banded, 35 were chicks (9% retrap rate) […]
Read MoreBook Review: Whistling Wings
Posted: 16/08/2021THE EFFECT OF WILDFIRE ON BUSH BIRD POPULATIONS IN SIX VICTORIAN COASTAL HABITATS
Posted: 16/08/2021In an area severely burned by wildfire on 16 February 1983, a study was carried out at six different sites at six-monthly intervals from autumn 1984 (14 months post-fire) to spring 1987 (56 months post-fire) to record the time taken for birds to re-establish populations. At ?.6 months post-fire, 84 per cent of the eventual […]
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