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Seabird Islands: No. 210 – Fife Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland

Posted: 15/08/2021
Author(s): B. R. King, C. J. Limpus and T. A. Walker

Seabird Islands: No. 209 – Sherrard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland

Posted: 15/08/2021
Author(s): B. R. King and C. J. Limpus

Seabird Islands: No. 208 – Chapman Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland

Posted: 15/08/2021
Author(s): B. R. King

Seabird Islands: No. 207 – Piper Islands, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland (comprising Farmer-Fisher and Beesley-Baird Islands)

Posted: 15/08/2021
Author(s): B. R. King and C. J. Limpus

Australasian Bird Reviews: No. 3 – THE SHORT-TAILED SHEARWATER: A REVIEW OF ITS BIOLOGY

Posted: 15/08/2021
Author(s): IRYNEJ SKIRA

The life history of the Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris has been well documented since it first came to the attention of naturalists. Approximately 23 million birds breed in about 250 colonies in southeastern Australia from September to April. The Short-tailed Shearwater commences to breed when 4 to 15 years. During their completed lifetimes 27 per […]

KLEPTOPARASITIC SILVER GULLS Larus novaehollandiae ON THE NORTHERN GREAT BARRIER REEF QUEENSLAND

Posted: 15/08/2021
Author(s): GEOFFREY C. SMTTH

Low frequencies of prey stealing behaviour were exhibited by Silver Gulls in Black-naped Tern and Crested Tern colonies on a tropical sand cay on the northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Egg predation by Silver Gulls in Black-naped Tern colonies was lower at this site compared with a southern Great Barrier Reef locality. Chick mortality attributed […]

MARINE ORNITHOLOGY

Posted: 15/08/2021
Author(s): M. D. Murray

PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE CRESTED TERN Sterna bergii IN SOUTH-EAST TASMANIA

Posted: 15/08/2021
Author(s): ERIC J. WOEHLER, WILLIAM C. WAKEFIELD and MARGARET WAKEFIELD

Hierarchical cluster analysis of morphological data (total head length, exposed culmen and tarsus) from 56 Crested Terns Sterna bergii from south-east Tasmania enabled the identification of an individual’s sex. Both total head length and exposed culmen can be used to differentiate the sexes as there is no overlap present. Tarsal lengths, due to a large […]

THE ROSEATE TERN Sterna dougallii gracilis BREEDING ON THE NORTHERN GREAT BARRIER REEF QUEENSLAND

Posted: 15/08/2021
Author(s): GEOFFREY C. SMITH

In the tropical environment on the northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Roseate Terns Stema dougallii laid eggs from November to January. The average clutch size was 1.6. This did not vary significantly in the three breeding seasons from 1983 to 1986. Adults fed their young predominantly silver, schooling bait-fish from 25 mm to 125 mm […]

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