... of these species will be obtained in time to prevent further losses of avian biodiversity. However, it is important to try. This paper describes the foraging behaviour during spring of seven species of Australian warblers and pardalotes (small insectivores) in the Great Western Woodland, Western Australia...

...C. M. Young; K.A. Kimpton; H.M Cohen; P.T. Burns; K. McLaughlin; P.B. Banks ABSTRACT Live trapping is a common survey technique used to sample small terrestrial mammal populations, but too often traps are disturbed by non-target species, especially by birds such as corvids, resulting...

... resources in the burnt landscape is particularly important. In this study, we compared the numbers, survival and diets of three species of small mammal at two sites in tall open-forest in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The first site was subjected to a high severity experimental fire...

...Matt W. Hayward; Stephan Chalup; Jamil Khan; Alex Callen; Kaya Klop-Toker; Andrea Griffin ABSTRACT Conservation managers cannot manage what they don’t know about, yet our existing biodiversity monitoring is idiosyncratic and small in scale. One of Australia’s commitments to the Convention...

... of birds to logging of a small, relatively isolated woodland remnant in a landscape dominated by agriculture, with a focus on declining woodland birds. Approximately two thirds of a 120 ha cypress-eucalypt woodland remnant was selectively logged. Eighty bird species in total were recorded 2–3½ years after...

..., but they may nevertheless require a legal, transportable and reliable method to be available for them so that they can obtain the necessary approvals to undertake their work. A small CO 2 system, reproducing the recommended method used widely in laboratories, seemed likely to meet these requirements. Three...

..., with the dominant species changing from peak to peak. The deer mouse ( Peromyscus maniculatus ) fluctuated irregularly, completely disappearing from the catch for 5 years in the early 1990s. Weasels were rare for the first 25 years of small rodent changes and marten were absent, but since 2000 marten have colonized...

...Matthew Mo; Peter Hayler; Antonia Hayler; David R. Waterhouse ABSTRACT The Spangled Drongo Dicrurus bracteatus , a partly-migratory passerine, was observed in bushland remnants in southern Sydney. Here, we report two incidents of Spangled Drongos hunting and feeding on small passerines from mixed...

... breeding sites. Predation by the non-native fish Gambusia holbrooki on small Litoria aurea and L. dentata tadpoles L. A. Morgan1 and W. A. Buttemer' 'En\.ironmental Science Unit; Uniaersit). of Wollongong, Wollangong. New South Wales 2522. 'Department of Biological Sciences. Unirenity of Wollongong...

...Nick Clemann; Kirstin Long; Damien Skurrie; Jason Dzuris Compared to many parts of Victoria, there have been few systematic surveys of ground-dwelling vertebrates in the Little Desert National Park. Using pitfall and Elliott traps, we conducted a trapping survey of small, ground-dwelling...

...Peter Banks; K. Nelika; A. Hughes; Tania Rose Domestic dogs are typically prohibited from National Parks and other wildlife reserves partly because managers fear that dog faeces will deter native small mammals from their normal behaviours. We tested this notion for two native small mammals in Ku...

...Michael Murphy A survey of the bird and non-flying mammal fauna in Pomingalarna Park, a small woodland remnant near Wagga Wagga, on the New South Wales South Western Slopes, recorded 91 native bird species and five native mammal species. Three introduced bird species and eight introduced mammal...

...Garry Webb The effectiveness of various pitfall trap designs and pitfall/drift fence systems for sampling small ground-dwelling lizards and frogs in the forests of southeastern Australia was examined. Pitfall/drift fence systems employing long drift fences were more effective than short or no-fence...

... on the comparative moult patterns in three small native mammal species trapped from the Central Highlands ofMctoria: two dasyurid rnar- supials, Antechinus stuartii and A. swainsod, and the murid rodent Rattus fuscipes. MATERIALS and METHODS The animals were caught in break-back traps during survey work from 1980-82...

...Murray Ellis As part of regional biological surveys 51 sites were established in the rangelands of western New South Wales, Australia. To investigate the impacts of pit size, drift fence material and fence configuration on capture rates small vertebrates each site consisted of two 20 l bucket traps...

...James Val; Damon Oliver; Michael Pennay; John McLaughlin; Peter Ewin; Else Foster Baseline surveys of reptiles, birds and small mammals that occur in Dune Mallee woodlands in the Lower Murray Darling catchment of south-western New South Wales were conducted at 60 sites between October 2007...

... the warmer months, and growth increments are small (0.8-2.3 mm OCL). A small proportion (< 50%) of mature females breed during the cooler months, carrying 20-150 eggs for a relatively short gestation period (2 months). Although the species does not rely on flowing or standing water, it is restricted...

... site was allocated to one of three categories. At the Seal Slide, 1 to 11 pups were born over nine pupping seasons and it is classed as a breeding colony. At four sites (Black Point, Cave Point, Cape Bouguer and North Casuarina Island), small numbers of pups were recorded over two or more seasons...