...Allan Keast Over the last 50 years major areas of bird habitat have been lost from the County of Cumberland. Included are the major saltmarshes and freshwater swamps from the western side of Botany Bay; the tall forests of the Upper North Shore and the woodlands of the Cumberland Plain between...

... of the lower Georges River and Botany Bay to the coast, he hoped to start a new pastoral empire on this Sydney estate. He brought a number of western plains Aboriginal people who had worked on his runs on the Castlereagh, as well as bringing back some of the Georges River people like Lowndes who had earlier...

...) as a food source utilised by man. Unpublished report to People s Trust for Endangered Species. Surrey, United Kingdom. White, A.W. 2010. The natural history of western Botany Bay. Pp. 402-414 in The Natural History of Sydney, edited by D Lunney, P Hutchings and D Hochuli. Royal Zoological Society of New...

... (Macropus major) but Poole and others discovered important reproductive dif- ferences between the eastern (now M. giganteus) and western (now M. mginosus) forms (Poole 1973, 1975; Poole and Catling 1974). Thus in Western Grey Kanga- roos pouch occupancy, oestrus cycle length and gesta- tion are all less...

... that rises near Strathfield in the entire continent by fire for tens of thousands of Sydney s inner south-western suburbs and discharges years, changing the flora to better suit their needs and into Botany Bay, draining about 100 km2 of densely increasing the yield of the animals that they hunted. populated...

... that was the source of founder animals for a captive-breeding colony at Taronga Zoo was located in the south-western corner of the site (334380 E, 6245724 N). The site has been in private ownership since at least the 1950s when it was an active sand mine. Since 1993 it has been owned by Meriton Apartments Pty Ltd...

.... Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH).Atlas of NSW Wildlife available at http://www.bionet.nsw.gov.au. Accessed 1 November 2012. http://www.bionet.nsw.gov.au Pianka, E.R. and Pianka, H.D. 1976. Comparative ecology of twelve species of nocturnal lizards (Gekkonidae) in the Western Australian...

... in cattle pasture on the western edge of Coomonderl-y Swamp (H. Ehmann, pers. comm Other smaller breeding aggregations have been recorded elsewhere around the edge O F the swamp (Murphy 1993). Coomonderry Swamp is a large freshwater lagoon and is relatively undisturbed. The Port Kembla site, in contrast...

... the visitation rate of A. mellifera to flowering and non- flowering branches of S. quinqueflora. Methods The study site Sydney Olympic Park is located in western Sydney on the southern side of the Parramatta River adjoining Homebush Bay. The area contains one of the largest areas of tidally influenced saltmarsh...

.... Inside white. Locations: Manly's Shelly Beach, Shell- harbour. Habitat and distribution: On intertidal rocks in sheltered bays. Not common in the Sydney metropolitan area, but becoming more common to the south. It occurs from southern Western Australia to mid New South Wales, including Tasmania...

... Museum 43(3): 241 274. Walker, D.I., Hutchings, P.A. and Wells, F.E. 1991. Seagrass, sediment and infauna a comparison of Posidonia australis, Posidonia sinuosa and Amphibolis antarctica in Princess Royal Harbour, South Western Australia. I. Seagrass biomass, productivity and contributions to sediments...

... Bay is indicative of its ability to thrive in suitable habitats. Therefore, if introduced, A. pflaumii may colonise coastal embayments and lower estuaries along the temperate Australian coastline. Acknowledgements Thanks to Barry Hutchins (Western Australian Museum) and Doug Hoese (Australian Museum...

... resulted from the effects of cattle grazing immediately south of the Creek. This blowout is now stabilizing following some remedial action. A small hind dune swamp occurs at the western edge of the sand blowout and immediately south of the Creek. This swamp drains into Station Creek. About 1.5 km...

... records indicated for the following locations: Middle Harbour, Manly Cove, Middle Head, Watsons Bay, Shark Bay, Berry s Bay, and off Mosman (Bradley s Head, Taylor s Bay and Chowder Bay). The Central and Western regions have been poorly collected for molluscs and this may be due in part to difficulties...

... University Press: Sydney and University of Hawaii Press: Honolulu, in association with The Australian Museum. LENANTON, R. J. C., 1982. Alternative non-estuarine nursery habitats for some commercially and recreationally important fish species of south-western Australia. Asst. J. Mar, Freshwat. Res. 33...

.... Conservation Biology in Theory and Practice Caughley, J. and Gall, B. 1985. Relevance of zoogeographical transition to conservation of fauna: amphibians and reptiles in the south-western slopes of NSW. Australian Zoologist 21: 513-527 Relevance of zoogeographical transition to conservation of fauna...

... for the smallest species of omnivorous possums and gliders (Hume 1999), sap feeding has been observed for one species of burramyid, the Western Pygmy-possum C. concinnus. During a radiotracking study at Innes National Park, South Australia multiple observations were made of C. concinnus gouging the bark...

... Bay, and in wetlands on the western slopes and tablelands from about Bathurst to the southern highlands (Pyke and White 1996). Almost all populations on the slopes and tablelands appear to now be extinct, many coastal populations have also disappeared, and the species is presently restricted to about...