...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...

...Stephen Sleightholme; Cameron Campbell The most comprehensive assessment of the breeding season of the thylacine was that undertaken by Eric Guiler of the University of Tasmania in 1961. Guiler based his study on a retrospective analysis of government bounty records. The authors contend...

... that include for example, the putative movement of home-ranges between breeding seasons. The aim of this study of 11 species (18 species breed regularly on the study site) was to determine, using home-range centroids as the position of the home-range (a) the distance between the home-ranges of the male...

... coast of New South Wales. Systematic nocturnal surveys were conducted at 30-34 sites, three to four times between October and March. Litoria aurea were observed at 20 sites and males were heard calling at five of these. The majority of detections during the breeding season (January - February) were...

... of koalas entering a wildlife shelter, and the most frequently assigned cause of death. There were relatively high rates of admission into care, and of death, for male koalas. Furthermore, almost twice as many individuals were admitted during the breeding season; sex ratio was not a differentiating...

...Danial Stratford; Gordon Grigg; Hamish McCallum; Harry Hines The breeding ecology and phenology of two sympatric stream breeding myobatrachid frogs were studied across a breeding season in a stream at Cunningham's Gap, south-east Queensland. Mixophyes fleayi is listed as endangered and M...

... Meters to record at night over a two week period (~3,696 hours) in the koala breeding season (October/November) in Murrah Flora Reserve. Recordings were scanned by a koala call recogniser and “matches” were manually verified. Across the 24 sites, 522 validated koala bellows were recorded at 21 sites...

... mid-March to mid-April (Autumn breeding) and early-August to mid-October (Spring breeding). Thirty-two percent of the 459 eggs laid during the study were laid in Autumn and 68% in Spring. Growth rates of nestling wings and body mass were similar between seasons and years. Nearly one third of breeding...

... vulnerability to extinction. Flying foxes are long-lived, seasonal breeders, with a rigid, well-defined breeding season that is largely or wholly genetically determined. Unlike opportunistic, highly reproductive species, such as rabbits or mice, female flying foxes are unable to produce viable young before...

...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...

... wheatbelt of Western Australia was studied intensively from 1969 to 1976, and then monitored in early September and November most breeding seasons until 1996. Monitoring resumed in 2009 following the same protocols used from 1977 until 1996, but with at least one extra monitoring visit, usually in January...

... by the appearance of gonads through the transparent window anterior to the vent close to the breeding season. Fecundity of the females varied from 2300 eggs at 86mm body length and 4.7gm body weight to 7000 eggs at 136mm length and 19gm weight. The gonosomatic index rose to 40.0 and 31.2 in females and males...

... spring or summer and should target ponds that are warm and fish-free. Program success was also limited by the numbers of tadpoles available for release. The lack of tadpoles for spring/summer release since the 2003/2004 breeding season has prevented evaluation of new, relatively warm ponds. Any captive...

... patterns is required to identify important environmental features. However, habitat use may differ between the different sexes and age classes due to different behavioural and resource requirements. For this study, we compared microhabitat use during the active breeding season among the sexes and age...

... quantitative or qualitative analysis. Consequently, almost nothing is known about the character of this very obvious song. We made eight recordings of the dawn song of a male individual at the start of the breeding season on the south-east coast of Australia, in spotted gum forest, 350 km south of Sydney...

... the breeding season (September to February) to establish the concentration of trace metals in both surface sediment and waters. Physico-chemical parameters including pH and salinity were also measured. Of the trace metals identified, copper and zinc were consistently elevated across sites. Over 50% of sites...

...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...