
Recovery Round-up
>> Download Complete PDF | File Size: 788KB Posted: 02/01/2015Category: Issue 3
Category: Issue 3
Category: Issue 3
Category: Issue 3
Category: Issue 3
From 1979 to 1987, 7 080 birds, representing 17 species, were banded at Raine Island, and from 1979 to 1985, 849 birds, representing 3 species, were banded at Moulter Cay, MacLennan Cay, Sandbank No. 7 and Sandbank No. 8. Almost half (45.5%, n = 3 609) of the 7 929 birds were banded as adults; […]
Category: Issue 3
Kleptoparasitism in birds is typically considered the piracy of food from one bird by another. This is an account of collaborative kleptoparasitic attacks by Dusky Woodswallows Artamus cyanopterus on a Restless Flycatcher Myiagra inquieta. The two woodswallows worked collaboratively to steal arthropod prey from the flycatcher with one woodswallow feeding the other with the stolen […]
Category: Issue 3
The pattern and timing of nesting by 57 bird species in open eucalypt Eucalyptus forest on the northern tablelands of New South Wales (30 degrees 30″ S, 151 degrees 40″ E; 990-1390 m asl) were studied in the breeding seasons of 1988-1992, 1994, and 1996. The first nests were initiated in mid-July with numbers increasing […]