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AGEING, SEXING AND PLUMAGE OF THE AUSTRALIAN KOEL Eudynamys cyanocephala
Posted: 13/08/2021Detailed descriptions of the juvenile, immature and adult plumages are given based on information from captive birds and museum specimens. Young birds can be sexed by the wing coverts over the patagium, which are black in males and black with buff or white tips in females.
Read MoreBook Review: Atlas des oiseaux de France en hiver
Posted: 13/08/2021Recovery Round-up: Volume 16 – Issue 3
Posted: 13/08/2021Data Exchange: MORPHOMETRICS OF THE WHITE-FACED ROBIN
Posted: 13/08/2021Data Exchange: COLOUR DIFFERENCE IN RED-BROWED FIRETAIL
Posted: 13/08/2021RELATIONSHIPS OF AGE, MOULT AND PLUMAGE IN THE WHITE-CHEEKED HONEYEATER NEAR BEVERLEY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Posted: 13/08/2021Wing and head/bill measurements of 415 White-cheeked Honeyeaters Phylidonyris nigra taken at initial capture and again at subsequent retraps are compared to establish growth patterns. A plumage sequence from juvenile to adult is presented. Moult records are examined to ascertain the role moult plays in the division of age classes into the three age groups […]
Read MoreFOREST BIRD COMMUNITIES OF THE RICHMOND RIVER DISTRICT, NEW SOUTH WALES
Posted: 13/08/2021Birds in sclerophyll (eucalypt) forests and rainforests in northern NSW were counted monthly over 30 months between 1977 and 1982. The bird communities of two dry sclerophyll forests were similar, a feature of both being the high frequency of lorikeets and honeyeaters (43–55% of all birds). They showed greater similarities to eucalypt woodland communities (elsewhere […]
Read MoreBIRDS KILLED ON A PRIMARY ROAD IN SOUTHERN NEW SOUTH WALES
Posted: 13/08/2021EFFECT OF WILDFIRE ON BIRDS AT WEDDIN MOUNTAIN, NEW SOUTH WALES
Posted: 13/08/2021Members of the New South Wales Field Ornithologist’s Club counted the number of species and individual birds in Weddin State Forest and Weddin Mountain National Park, parts of which were attected by fire in January 1975. This was the first study of the effects of fire on bird populations in White Cypress Pine habitat. Counts […]
Read MoreErratum: Volume 16 – Issue 2
Posted: 12/08/2021There is an error in the review of Briggs, S. V . . entitled ‘Movement patterns and breeding characteristics of arid zone clucks’ in Corella 16( 1 ) . The second sentence in the last paragraph on page 16 should read : ‘The mean clutch sizc of all arid zone ducks is . . , […]
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