The Australian Bird Guide (The Guide) was published by CSIRO Publishing in 2017. Written by Peter Menkhorst along with Danny Rogers and Rohan Clarke and...
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of the remainder over 45% are classified as Australian endemics: found nowhere else on earth. It has been suggested that up to 10% of Australian bird species...
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Wedge-tailed eagle (category Birds of Australia)
The wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax) also known as the eaglehawk, is the largest bird of prey in the continent of Australia. It is also found in southern...
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Birds of Australia is the country's avian fauna. Birds of Australia may also refer to: The Birds of Australia (Broinowski) by Gracius J. Broinowski, published...
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Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (/ˈeɪviːz/), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of...
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The Australian pipit (Anthus australis) is a fairly small passerine bird of open country in Australia and New Guinea. It belongs to the pipit genus Anthus...
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Peter Menkhorst (category Australian ecologists)
Peter Menkhorst PSM is an Australian ecologist and an authority on Australian mammals and birds. He is experienced in wildlife management, including management...
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Diamond firetail (category Birds of South Australia)
from Southeast Queensland to the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. The Australian Bird Guide shows its core distribution from southern Queensland (just...
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The Australian crake (Porzana fluminea), also known as Australian spotted crake, or spotted crake is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is the...
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Superb lyrebird (redirect from Superb lyre bird)
lyrebird population". Australian Bird Watcher. 17: 71–80. Pizzey, G.; Knight, F. (2003). The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia (2 ed.). HarperCollins...
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Common sandpiper (category Wading birds)
Clarke, Rohan; Davies, Jeff; Marsack, Peter; Franklin, Kim (2020). The Australian Bird Guide (Revised ed.). Canberra: CSIRO. ISBN 9780643097544. Mann, C.F...
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Cape Barren goose (category Birds of South Australia)
Clarke, Rohan; Davies, Jeff; Marsack, Peter; Franklin, Kim (2019). The Australian Bird Guide (Revised ed.). CSIRO Publishing. pp. 166–167. ISBN 9781486311934...
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A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia was first published in 1980 by Collins, Sydney. It was authored by Graham Pizzey with illustrations by Roy B....
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Field Guide to Australian Birds is a two-volume bird field guide published by Rigby of Adelaide, South Australia, in its Rigby Field Guide series. The first...
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The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds is one of the main national bird field guides used by Australian birders. The guide was first published in 1986...
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A Field Guide to Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds is a guide to the identification of the nests and eggs of Australian birds, authored by Gordon Beruldsen...
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The Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) is a black and white passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea, and introduced to New Zealand...
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Kookaburra (redirect from Kookaburras (bird))
are listed as least concern. Australian law protects native birds, including kookaburras. The distinctive sound of the laughing kookaburra's call resembles...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a 1978 radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio...
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Silver gull (category Birds of Australia)
Museum. 23 January 2007. Archived from the original on 13 April 2010. Retrieved 10 May 2009. The Australian Bird Guide (Revised ed.). CSIRO. 2019. pp. 100–101...
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The largest extant species of bird measured by mass is the common ostrich (Struthio camelus), closely followed by the Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes)...
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With the merger, BirdLife Australia became the Australian national partner organisation of BirdLife International, a role hitherto performed by Birds Australia...
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Little grassbird (category Birds of Australia)
monotone, tee-ti-teee." The Australian Bird Guide notes that the bird is more often heard rather than seen, particularly in the breeding season where it...
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Trusler, Peter (2004). A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia (7th ed.). Penguin. p. 142. ISBN 0-670-04180-7. Australian Parrots, by Forshaw, Joseph M...
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CSIRO Publishing (category Book publishing companies of Australia)
Kaplan [Bird Minds] David Lindenmayer [environmental titles] Peter Menkhorst et al. The Australian Bird Guide Robert Whyte, Greg Anderson [A Field Guide to...
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The Australian white ibis (Threskiornis molucca) is a wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae. It is widespread across much of Australia. It...
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Squatter pigeon (category Endemic birds of Australia)
11 November 2021. Menkhorst, Peter; Rogers etc, Danny (2017). The Australian Bird Guide. Clayton South, Victoria: CSIRO. p. 292. ISBN 9780643097544. a...
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Tawny grassbird (category Birds of Australia)
– IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 2022-07-23. Slater, Peter; Slater, Pat; Slater, Raoul (2009). The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds (2nd ed.). London...
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Grey fantail (category Birds of Australia)
The grey fantail (Rhipidura albiscapa) is a small insectivorous bird. There is no sexual dimorphism. It is a common fantail found in Australia, the Solomon...
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Black-fronted dotterel (category Birds of Australia)
Marsack P. 2019. The Australian bird guide. Australia, CSIRO. 9781486311934 Pizzey, G and Knight, F. 2012. Birds of Australia. Australia. HarperCollins...
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