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...Richard Beggs ABSTRACT 1878: “…gallant little birds” (Wagga Wagga Advertiser) 1915: “… the carol of the magpie is eclipsed by the song of the miner” (Emu) 2004: “…the mafia of the bird world” (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 2015: “I hate those f***in things” (RedditAustralia) Through the 19...

...-capped Robin Petroica goodenovii was widely distributed in both logged and unlogged areas. The likelihood of recovery of local woodland bird populations is discussed in the context of limited landscape connectivity and the recent colonisation of the remnant by the hyper-aggressive Noisy Miner Manorina...

... to eastern Australia that preys mainly on arboreal mammals and birds. We identified records of 30 species of birds and one mammal known to mob the Powerful Owl from scientific literature and unpublished studies. In our study in southern Sydney, Powerful Owls were most frequently mobbed by Noisy Miners...

... sightings of the Black-eared Miner Manorina flavigula melanotis . Bowler, J., 1990. The last 500,000 years. In The Murray ed by N. Mackay and D. Eastburn. Murray Darling Basin Commission. Canberra. The Murray Brandle, R. and Bird, P., 1990. Chpt. 4 Mammals. Pp. 80-99 in Chourilla...

... and restricted, while the woodland patches and remnant tree groves in the landscape are now dominated by the Galah, Noisy Miner, Australian Magpie, Crested Pigeon, Apostlebird, Magpie-lark, Grey-crowned Babbler, Australian Raven, Eastern Rosella and Pied Butcherbird. declining birds fragmented woodland...

... increases in bone strain that accompanied active flight would result in bone formation at the periosteal bone surface, leading to increased mechanical stiffness and strength. This hypothesis was not supported by the results. Bone formation rates, percentage mineralising surface and mineral apposition rates...

... poliocephalus camp on residential land Matthew Mo, Lorraine Oliver, Kylie Coutts-McClelland, Nathaly Jones and Joshua Gregory 752 Native to Nemesis: a cultural and environmental history of the Noisy Miner 1788 - 2019 Richard Beggs 770 A feeding observation in a free-ranging Grey Snake Hemiaspis damelii (Günther...

... al. 2007). Invasive weeds have also been suggested as altering the habitat in ways that do not favour some woodland-dependent species (Egan et al. 1997; Patrick 2016). Many of these habitat changes favour larger aggressive bird species such as the Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala, Bell Miner M...

..., and it appears that none have involved experiments in which attempt to remove all birds on a plot. There have been removals in Australia of single species, for example, Noisy Manorina melanocephala and Bell M. melanophrys Miners, birds that exclude other species from their colonies, with comparable results (Loyn...

...). Four others, Yellow-throated Miner, and White-eared, Yellow-plumed, and Brown- headed Honeyeaters, have short, straight bills suited for taking lerp, manna, honeydew, and arthropods from foliage and bark, and are termed short-billed species (Table 1). Ford and Paton (1977) considered long-billed...

... large deposits of mineral sand that contain economic quantities of rutile, zircon and ilmenite. Our study focuses on the Bridge Hill sand mine. Prior to mining, the Bridge Hill dune had been noted by various geographers for its unique features (Thom et al. 1981; Less 2006). It was a Holocene marine sand...

... is satisfied that the authorisation is necessary for the purposes of the management, conservation, protection or control of wildlife (s 28A (a)(d One notable policy precedent is the national recognition of the native noisy miner Manorina melanocephala as a Key Threatening Process to woodland native bird...

...; and Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala, from 1999), and three in WNP (Apostlebird Struthidea cinerea, from 2008; Western Gerygone Gerygone fusca, from 2012; and Fairy Martin Petrochelidon ariel, from 2017). The Noisy Miner is included in this listing as it had not been seen in the study area prior to 1999...

... species of bird (Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala decapitated quickly (Fig. 2), such that the precise moment and Australian Magpie Cracticus tibicen). This study also it occurred was not noticed. The owl flew off to join two recorded eight unsuccessful hunting attacks on four bird juveniles, which...