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Book Chapter

Parrots of the Sydney region: population changes over 100 years

By Shelley Burgin, Tony Saunders

Book: Pest or Guest: The Zoology of Overabundance

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2007

10.7882/FS.2007.023

EISBN: 978-0-9803272-1-2

... 15 species are now known from this area. Populations of the five most common of these species have continued to increase in the last 20 years, one appears to have remained unchanged and others are present in insufficient numbers to comment. No species appears to have declined in numbers. Escapees...

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Journal Articles

The Red-whiskered Bulbul Pycnonotus jocosus in Australia – a global perspective, history of introduction, current status and potential impacts

Matthew Mo

Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (4): 461–471.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2015.014

Published: 01 September 2015

...) is perhaps one of the most documented invasions of the Red- whiskered Bulbul. The source of this population originated from individuals that escaped during an aviary transfer in a bird farm in Kendall in 1960 (Stimson 1962; Fisk 1966; Owre 1973). The number of escapees was either five to 10 breeding pairs...

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Journal Articles

Habitat loss and species loss: the birds of Sydney 50 years ago and now

Allan Keast

Australian Zoologist (2014) 30 (1): 3–25.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1995.002

Published: 17 March 2014

... Sparrow, Red- hrowed Finch, Nutmeg Mannikin (an aviary escapee), Starling, Common Myna, Peewee, Magpie, Pied Currawong, Australian Raven. Recorded on one-third to half the trips were: Little Grebe, Pacific Heron, Great Egret, Grey Teal, Black-shouldered Kite, Kestrel, Swamp- hen, Galah, Rainbow Lorikeet...