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Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (4): 689–695.
Published: 04 December 2020
... to allow humans to identify individual birds. Eighty participants took part in our pattern matching experiment to see how many of 10 photographs of individual birds they placed correctly below a panel showing 20 individual birds, each illustrated with three different photographs. Participants were from...
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Australian Zoologist (2016) 38 (1): 62–82.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Kayley M. Usher; Christine Groom; Denis A. Saunders This study determined methods for identifying individual Carnaby's Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus latirostris using natural variations in markings, to assist future research and management. Photographs of wild and captive cockatoos and museum specimens...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.009
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
... Roost trees at three Pteropus conspicillatus camps in the Australian Wet Tropics were monitored for the presence and absence of individuals over a four month period. The number of individual P. conspicillatus in roost trees varied on a variety of time scales, with seasonal changes...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.045
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... of individual species actually enhances the likelihood of them remaining extant. The paper then examines whether or not the protection of individual species diverts effort from habitat and ecosystem conservation. Third I address the question: does the protection of species significantly reduce the vital...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 44 (1): 231–251.
Published: 09 May 2024
... and native wildlife in peri-urban northern Sydney. We trapped rats and native wildlife at eight 1-ha bushland sites and sampled for a range of internal pathogens from necropsied individuals (n=85 rats) and animal/trap swabs (n=54 native individuals). We detected a high prevalence of rat lungworm...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 44 (1): 35–43.
Published: 09 May 2024
... and female of a breeding pair, (b) the scatter of the home-range positions of a repeat (in different seasons) breeding male, and (c) the distance between the nest of a pair and the home-range centroid of the male. Over eight breeding seasons, all nests were found, and sightings of multiple individuals from...
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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2011
10.7882/FS.2011.019
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-4-3
..., individually assembled from 6 smaller poles. The poles were relatively light but required 4 people for safe net assembly. Data were obtained from 259 processed individuals, except juveniles, heavily pregnant females, and females with attached young, which were banded and released immediately. We anaesthetised...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (2): 220–231.
Published: 27 October 2023
... 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...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (2): 281–286.
Published: 23 October 2023
...Harry F. Recher ABSTRACT Birds were removed after counting numbers along a creek reserve established when old growth eucalypt forest on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales was cleared for pine plantations. Removal ceased after the number of individuals collected exceeded the number estimated...
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Australian Zoologist (2023) 43 (1): 52–66.
Published: 14 March 2023
... overlooked in the literature. This paper explores and critically evaluates one person's novel approach and contribution to Koala citizen science in Central Queensland and argues that her practice is doing much to advance knowledge on the identification of individual koalas and their condition as well...
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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): 256–277.
Published: 09 May 2022
...Christopher R. Dickman; David C. D. Happold ABSTRACT Populations of many animal species decline after fire, with some individuals killed during the fire and others succumbing to impoverished conditions in the post-fire environment. For individuals that survive a fire, an ability to exploit scarce...
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Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (3): 379–391.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Acoustic Observatory (A2O), but has not established movement tracking systems for individual terrestrial animals across land and along coastlines. Here, we make the case that the Motus Wildlife Tracking System, an open-source, rapidly expanding cooperative automated radio-tracking global network (Motus...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (3): 449–463.
Published: 01 September 2018
... differences in relation to plumage colour morph, sex, age and individual variation to consider the potential for identifying individual birds, and, (3) examine environmental and temporal effects on calling behaviour. Three types of calls were identified: screech, continuous screech and chatter calls...
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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2012
10.7882/FS.2012.038
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-8-1
... Scientists presenting inconvenient facts or ideas that run counter to commercial interests may place themselves at risk of legal action. Frivolous or even vexatious lawsuits are a recognized tool for silencing criticism of corporate or individual commercial interests, particularly where...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 599–614.
Published: 04 October 2024
... and biomarkers of individual health. Littlejohn's tree frog was recently uplisted to Endangered, due to increased threat of extinction resulting from the fires, whilst already suffering from disease and reduced genetic diversity. Our integrated conservation approach attempts to accelerate recovery of a species...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 44 (1): 121–127.
Published: 02 August 2024
... and for an average of 2.3±1.47 years (avg±standard deviation). Individual artificial hollow use ranged from no use through to six years of use. This finding has important implications for the conservation of both subspecies of Regent Parrot. * Email: [email protected] Regent Parrot Polytelis...