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Comparison of atlas data to determine the conservation status of bird species in New South Wales, with an emphasis on woodland-dependent species

G. Barrett, A. Silcocks, R. Cunningham, D. Oliver, M. Weston ...

Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (1): 37–77.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2007.003

Published: 07 October 2011

...G. Barrett; A. Silcocks; R. Cunningham; D. Oliver; M. Weston; J. Baker An overview of changes to the distribution and numbers of New South Wales birds was considered in relation to the IBRA bioregions, using data from Birds Australia's first and second national bird atlases ( Atlas 1 , 1977 - 1981...

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Book Chapter

Current issues in the conservation of the terrestrial herpetofauna of Tasmania

By D. Rounsevell, Roy Swain

Book: Herpetology in Australia: A Diverse Discipline

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 1993

10.7882/RZSNSW.1993.013

EISBN: 0-9599951-8-8

... for almost all species, although amphibian and reptile atlases, currently under preparation by the Parks and Wildlife Service, should improve this situation considerably. The highest priority for action to conserve the fauna is for the State Government to pass legislation to protect native species. Actions...

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Priorities for Bat Conservation: Analysis of the responses to a Questionnaire in July 1989 by the participants of the Eighth International Bat Research Conference

Daniel Lunney

Australian Zoologist (2014) 25 (3): 71–78.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1989.005

Published: 17 March 2014

... statements (80 and education programmes (80 The preparation of field guides and atlases were seen as important but not yet urgent. Thus, habitat protection, environmental impacts, and education were given top priority. As an addition to this question, respondents were also asked to list other items. Some...

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A review of the taxonomy and distribution of Australia’s endemic Calyptorhynchinae black cockatoos

Denis A Saunders, Geoffrey Pickup

Australian Zoologist (2023)

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.022

Published: 10 August 2023

...; Victorian Naturalist; Western Australian Naturalist); Birdlife Australia Bird Atlases (Blakers et al. 1984; Barrett et al. 2003); the Western Australian wheatbelt bird atlas (Saunders and Ingram 1995); field notes of colleagues; and personal observations. Most of our location records came from The New...

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Fauna by-catch in pipeline trenches: conservation, animal ethics, and current practices in Australia

J. Sean Doody, Peter West, Jessica Stapley, Michael Welsh, Anton Tucker ...

Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (3): 410–419.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2002.019

Published: 17 March 2014

... during construction of the EGP provided valuable scientific data on the distribution and abundance of many species. The inventory, in amalgamation with other distributional data in state atlases, increases our understanding of spatial patterns of Australian vertebrate assemblages. For example...

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Trends in woodland bird populations on the Cumberland Plain, New South Wales, from long-term datasets

A.S.J. Saunders

Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 675–697.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2018.041

Published: 01 December 2018

.... The reporting rate for the Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus within the Sydney bioregion increased by more than 20% between the first and second atlases despite being less likely to be reported by the survey methods used in the second atlas (Barrett et al. 2003). It was ranked twenty-ninth in the first atlas...

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Journal Articles

Solving problems of conservation inadequacy for nomadic birds

Claire Runge, Ayesha I.T. Tulloch

Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 280–295.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2016.003

Published: 01 January 2018

... to detect nomadic reptiles and mammals remain elusive. Broad scale citizen science programs such as atlases might be the best way to start informing where to protect or manage these species (Tulloch et al. 2013a). When static protected areas are insufficient due to moving refugia, rather than designing...

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After the 2010 rains: changes in reporting rates of birds in remnant woodland vegetation in the central wheatbelt of New South Wales, Australia, from drought to post-drought

Murray Ellis, Jennifer Taylor

Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (1): 29–39.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.007

Published: 02 June 2014

... focus on the agricultural lands at the eastern end of the Darling Riverine Plains bioregion, which also extends west into rangelands where cropping is less intense (Bedward et al. 2007) and hence different population dynamics could be expected. The surveys for both Atlases were in periods of greater...

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2014 Whitley Awards

Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (3): 403–422.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.045

Published: 14 April 2015

...- different, again, from other mammals. The final three laying mammals are highly specialised and are a key part 2015 AustralZiaoonlogist volume 37 (3) 413 Whitely Awards 2014 chapters present detailed atlases of the anatomy of the almost 500 pages to the book. Each chapter has clear line peripheral nervous...

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Upland savannas: the vertebrate fauna of largely unknown but significant habitat in north-eastern Queensland

E.P. Vanderduys, A.S. Kutt, J.E. Kemp

Australian Zoologist (2012) 36 (1): 59–74.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2012.007

Published: 07 September 2012

... Cotton Pygmy-geese was observed at Emu Swamp on 3 December 2004. Total Australian population estimates in the 1960s were around 1500 birds (Lavery 1966), and no population trend is obvious between the two Australian Bird Atlases (Barrett et al. 2003; Blakers et al. 1984). More recent, and probably more...

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A Survey of the Terrestrial Vertebrate Fauna of the Menindee Lakes, Western New South Wales

Geoff Brown, Keith Cherry, Jennifer Nelson, Louise Grgat

Australian Zoologist (2014) 32 (3): 381–400.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2002.016

Published: 17 March 2014

... throughout all stages of the project. Staff associated with the following institutions that provided historical information: New South Wales Atlas (NPWS), Atlas of Victorian Wildlife (NRE), Australian Museum, South Australian Museum, Museum Victoria, Birds Australia Atlas, New South Wales Western Atlasers...

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Habitat loss and landscape degradation: the disastrous outlook for vertebrate fauna in central western NSW

Anne Kerle, David Goldney, Mike Fleming

Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (1): 40–74.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.013

Published: 02 June 2014

... Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Launceston Tasmania, Queensland Museum, South Australian Museum, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Hobart Tasmania, and the Western Australian Museum. NSW Bird Atlasers Inc.: www.nswbirdatlassers.com a summary of the data held for each mapsheet was purchased by the CMAs...