We describe the downy young and juvenile stages of the Chestnut Rail, a large, little-known rail of tropical mangrove forests, and provide notes on development. The information was obtained from four birds of two clutches hatched in the wild but raised in captivity. Young are precocial. Moult from downy to juvenile plumage commences at about […]
Playback tapes are a useful tool in censusing birds but their use as an aid for trapping birds for banding is generally overlooked. In the Capertee Valley, New South Wales, Regent Honeyeaters reacted strongly to playback tapes during the breeding season and were readily caught in mist-nets with the use of tapes. This technique offered […]
The potential role of fallen timber in influencing avian microhabitat use was examined in box-ironbark forests in the Dunolly forest block in central Victoria, Australia. Six sites with relatively high levels of fallen timber across each site were selected. Within each site, areas with (‘debris’ areas) and without (’empty’ areas) piles of fallen timber were […]
Twelve wetlands on the floodplain of the Murrumbidgee River (Murray-Darling Basin, Australia) were surveyed for waterbirds while they were flooded during 1989-90. At six of the wetlands, water regimes were controlled slightly or not at all; at the other six sites water regimes were controlled moderately or heavily. Abundances of six species of waterbird were […]
The current state of knowledge about the movements of Great, Intermediate and Little Egrets from Australian breeding colonies is reviewed using published work, data provided by the Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme and the records of Project Egret Watch at the Shortland Wetlands Centre. The limited data available suggest that the three egret species […]
