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Temporal Patterns of Abundance of Birds Along a Transect in Kings Park, Perth: A long-term study

Harry F. Recher
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (4): 937–959.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.016
Published: 09 May 2022
...Harry F. Recher ABSTRACT Frequency of occurrence data are available for birds along a transect in Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia from 1928 to 2008. These data show a dynamic avifauna with about a third of the sixty-one bird species recorded declining in frequency since 1928, another third...
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Spatial and temporal differences in the foraging behaviour of birds in a mixed eucalypt forest and woodland on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales

Harry F. Recher
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2021) 42 (1): 111–129.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.023
Published: 04 August 2021
...Harry F. Recher ABSTRACT In Australia’s eucalypt forests and woodlands, co-habiting birds differ in the foraging manoeuvres or methods used to search for and take prey, the substrates and plants on which prey are found, and the heights at which foraging takes place. On the Southern Tablelands...
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Changes to the status of birds in the Tapitallee region on the south coast of New South Wales from 1928 to 2020

Garry Daly
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2021) 42 (1): 30–54.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.016
Published: 12 July 2021
...Garry Daly ABSTRACT Aubrey Elliott (1910–1943), a passionate ‘bird-man’, lived in the suburb of Tapitallee on the south coast of New South Wales until 1940. During that period he and his brother, Arthur kept notes on the birds in the local area and devised a hide that was mounted on a utility...
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A detailed description of the breeding season of a community of birds on the south-east coast of Australia

Michael Guppy, Anthony Overs, Sarah Guppy
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (4): 761–772.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.014
Published: 04 June 2021
...Michael Guppy; Anthony Overs; Sarah Guppy ABSTRACT The details of a breeding season have been investigated and described for many bird species and groups of species, but rarely for an entire breeding community. The collection of such data is the only way of quantifying the number of birds a habitat...
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The distribution and frequency of detection of woodland birds after selective logging of a small woodland remnant in an agricultural landscape in inland southern Australia

Michael J. Murphy
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (4): 529–547.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2018.036
Published: 01 June 2020
...Michael J. Murphy ABSTRACT The majority of studies into the response of birds to logging in Australian forests has been done in forest-dominated landscapes or relatively large forest blocks, where the surrounding landscape can ameliorate impacts. This is the first study to examine the response...
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Solving problems of conservation inadequacy for nomadic birds

Claire Runge, Ayesha I.T. Tulloch
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 280–295.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2016.003
Published: 01 January 2018
...Claire Runge; Ayesha I.T. Tulloch ABSTRACT Nomadic birds move around the landscape in complex, irregular patterns, making it difficult for conservation managers and planners to decide where and how to act to mitigate threatening processes. Because of this uncertainty, nomadic species are poorly...
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The winter foraging behaviour of birds in a mixed eucalypt forest and woodland on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales

Harry F. Recher
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2016) 38 (1): 1–15.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2016.005
Published: 01 January 2016
...Harry F. Recher In this paper, I present data on the foraging behaviour of eucalypt forest and woodland birds at two sites on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales during the non-breeding season (winter). The winter community was a subset of the summer community, with six guilds among 23...
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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
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (4): 425–460.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2015.004
Published: 01 September 2015
...L. C. Llewellyn 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...
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Birds of the Riverina 1964-1972 (an historical perspective)

L.C. Llewellyn
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (3): 350–364.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2015.005
Published: 14 April 2015
... recorded over the 1962-78 period by other workers (A.Davies, J.Izzard, J.Hobbs, P.Wilson and other joint authors) giving a total or 319 species in the Riverina over that period. The more recent lists of the Bird Atlas I and 2 1988-2001 and the Bird Trails document up to 2011, which cover a large proportion...
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Response of birds to episodic summer rainfall in the Great Western Woodlands, Western Australia

Harry Recher, William Davis, Jr.
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (2): 206–224.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.011
Published: 05 June 2014
..., there was less vegetative growth, and nectar production declined. As habitats became drier, fewer birds nested, although some bred and fledged young. Ground, shrub, and canopy foragers, including migrants, along with nectar-feeders declined in abundance. The numbers of raptors and cuckoos declined in line...
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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
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2014) 37 (1): 29–39.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.007
Published: 02 June 2014
...Murray Ellis; Jennifer Taylor Loss and fragmentation of the native vegetation of the Central Western Plains of New South Wales was followed by declines of woodland-dependent species. Drought is likely to have further suppressed many animal populations. Here we report on changes in woodland bird...
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The harvest of wild birds for aviculture: an historical perspective on finch trapping in the Kimberley with special emphasis on the Gouldian Finch

Donald Franklin, Allan Burbidge, P. L. Dostine
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 92–109.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1999.010
Published: 17 March 2014
.... We conclude that the data are consistent with the hypothesis that the Gouldian Finch suffered a major population decline in the Kimberley area in the late 1970s. We also discuss a range of “sustainable conservation” issues related to the harvest of wild birds for the avicultural trade and suggest...
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Habitat loss and species loss: the birds of Sydney 50 years ago and now

Allan Keast
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2014) 30 (1): 3–25.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1995.002
Published: 17 March 2014
...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...
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Nocturnal forest birds and arboreal marsupials of the southwestern slopes, New South Wales

Rodney Kavanagh, Matthew Stanton
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2014) 30 (4): 449–466.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1998.012
Published: 17 March 2014
...Rodney Kavanagh; Matthew Stanton A regional survey of 253 forest sites on the southwestern slopes and adjacent highlands of New South Wales recorded a total of 530 animals from five species of nocturnal forest birds and nine species of arboreal marsupials. One additional species, the Squirrel...
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Birds in remnant woodland vegetation in the central wheatbelt of New South Wales during the drought declared years 2005 to 2009

Murray Ellis, Jennifer Taylor
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (3): 332–348.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2012.019
Published: 04 June 2013
... South Wales on the occurrence of birds in woodlands that have been highly fragmented and structurally altered over the last 150 years. The species composition of the region is still very similar to that recorded 3 decades earlier but many small insectivorous and nectivorous woodland birds are rare...
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The possible effects of extreme temperature on the eggs and nestlings of some woodland birds

M. Guppy, A. Overs, S Guppy, A. O. Nicholls
Journal: Australian Zoologist
Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (2): 239–241.
https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2012.021
Published: 07 February 2013
...M. Guppy; A. Overs; S Guppy; A. O. Nicholls We document here the effects of an unusual temperature event related to a site in South East NSW that is the subject of a longitudinal study of the breeding biology of woodland birds. In the three breeding seasons before the 2009-10 season we recorded...
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Using museum collections and community surveys to monitor change in the birds of Sydney

By Richard E. Major
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2010
10.7882/FS.2010.019
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-3-6
... To identify changes in the dominance of broad groupings of bird species associated with the urbanisation of Sydney, records from the Australian Museum Ornithology Collection database and the Birds Australia Atlas Database were analysed. This historical comparison suggests that parrots, large...
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The impact of human disturbance on birds: a selective review

By Megan Price
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2008
10.7882/FS.2008.023
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-2-9
... of the impact of human disturbance. It is essential to understand how birds react to different levels of human disturbance because riskier human behaviour can have devastating effects on habitat use, community composition, reproduction and fitness. Birds tend to overestimate the risk associated with humans...
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Species richness and community composition of passerine birds in suburban Perth: is predation by pet cats the most important factor?

By Jacky Grayson, Michael Calver, Alan Lymbery
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.024
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-1-2
... Using data from 57 sites across suburban Perth we tested the influence of Cat Density on species richness and community composition of passerine birds as well as on the presence/absence of 15 common passerine species. Cat Density was not a significant predictor of any of the dependent variables...
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Effects of exotic plants in native vegetation on species richness and abundance of birds and mammals

By Brad R. Murray, Chris R. Dickman, Tessa Robson, Adele Haythornthwaite, Andrew J. Cantlay ...
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2007
10.7882/FS.2007.026
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-1-2
... We reviewed published, quantitative studies examining the effects of exotic plants in native vegetation on the species richness and abundance of birds and mammals. We asked whether the incursion of exotic plants into native vegetation has led to consistent declines, increases or no changes...
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