Birds Banded in the Riverina between 1964 and 1972, with an examination of numbers caught over time at Narrandera

Llewellyn, L. C.

doi:10.7882/AZ.2015.004

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Birds Banded in the Riverina between 1964 and 1972, with an examination of numbers caught over time at Narrandera

L. C. Llewellyn

Curlew Biological Services, PO Box 67, Pacific Palms, NSW 2428, Email: [email protected]

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Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (4): 425–460.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2015.004

A total of 5618 birds (118 species) were banded in the Riverina between 1964 and 1972. A total of 3139 of these (95 species) were banded at the Inland Fisheries Research Station (IFRS) (now the Narrandera Fisheries Centre) on 629 days netting. At the IFRS 608 individual birds were recaptured a total of 922 times, giving a recovery rate of 19.4%. Residency, migration, irregularity of visits and the influence that rainfall and flooding played on these were examined. Birds banded elsewhere in the Riverina are recorded and the incidence of breeding is reported. The need for long term studies to determine true species diversity in inland Australia is emphasised.

Bird banding Riverina, Bird banding Narrandera, bird numbers over time 1964–1972, resident, migratory and irregular visitors

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