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...Peter R Mawson; Rick Dawson; Denis A Saunders ABSTRACT Barn Owls Tyto alba were recorded breeding in natural nest hollows in a Wandoo Eucalyptus wandoo woodland in the northern wheatbelt of Western Australia infrequently and at low densities during the period 1969-2022. During a record cropping...

...Denis A Saunders ABSTRACT A breeding population of Western Red-tailed Cockatoos Calyptorhynchus escondidus was studied between July 1974 and December 1981 at Nereeno Hill, in the northern wheatbelt of Western Australia. Egg-laying occurred during two clearly defined periods each year; with peaks...

...Denis A Saunders; Ross B Cunningham ABSTRACT The breeding ecology of the Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus banksii escondidus was studied in the northern wheatbelt of Western Australia from the austral spring of 1974 to the end of 1981. The usual clutch was one egg, but 8 of 465 clutches...

...Denis A. Saunders ABSTRACT The diet and movements of a breeding population of the Red-tailed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus banksi escondidus was studied between spring 1974 and the end of 1981 at Nereeno Hill in the northern wheatbelt of Western Australian. The birds fed almost exclusively...

...Denis A Saunders; Alison Doley ABSTRACT Koobabbie is a 7,173-ha cereal and sheep growing property in the northern wheatbelt of Western Australia. Unlike most wheatbelt properties that have been extensively cleared of native vegetation, Koobabbie retains 41% of its area under native vegetation...

... species and communities are now restricted to remnant vegetation (Ford 2011) and there is evidence of population decline of many woodland bird species (Barrett et al. 1994; Barrett and Silcocks 2002; Barrett et al. 2007; Mac Nally et al. 2009). The central wheatbelt of New South Wales (NSW) is one...

... for habitat restoration Wildlife Research 34 253 261 Cox, S.J., Sivertsen, D.P. and Bedward, M. 2001. Clearing of native woody vegetation in the New South Wales northern wheatbelt: extent, rate of loss and implications for biodiversity conservation. Cunninghamia 7: 101-155. Clearing of native...

... 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...

... in the central wheatbelt of New South Wales during the drought declared years 2005 to 2009. Australian Zoologist 36: 332-348. DOI: 10.7882/AZ.2012.019 Birds in remnant woodland vegetation in the central wheatbelt of New South Wales during the drought declared years 2005 to 2009 Australian Zoologist 36 332...

... in the World Conservation Strategy, has not been followed. For example, 93% of the 14 million ha wheatbelt of southwestern Australia has been stripped of its native vegetation for the pro- duction of wheat and sheep. Over half of this area was cleared after 1945 (Saunders 1989a), and as late as the early 1970s...

... species Arnold, G. and Weeldenburg, J., 1998. The effects of isolation, habitat fragmentation and degradation by livestock grazing on the use by birds of patches of Gimlet Eucalyptus salubris woodland in the wheatbelt of Western Australia. Pac. Cons. Biol. 4: 155-63. The effects of isolation...

... population of this species was studied in detail at Coomallo Creek in the northern wheatbelt of WA between 1969 and 1976 and then monitored at various intervals from 1977 to 1996 following the protocol explained by Saunders and Ingram (1987). In September and November 2009, the Coomallo Creek population...

... farm wildlife for conservation and production on “Koobabbie”, a cereal and sheep growing property, in the northern wheatbelt of Western Australia. (Paper included post forum.) 218 2019 The following is a transcript of the plenary proceedings, lightly edited for readability. PAUL WILLIS: Let s start...

...Vaughan Monamy; Jennifer Taylor; Leroy Gonsalves; Murray Ellis We conducted acoustic surveys of insectivorous bat fauna in riparian areas along the Macquarie and Bogan River systems in the wheatbelt of semi-arid central-western New South Wales, Australia. In surveys of 10 sites we detected 11...

... and Storr 2004; Fox et al. 2016). It is also found in southeastern Australia where it occurs mostly in mallee woodlands (Higgins et al. 2001). In the Wandoo Eucalyptus wandoo woodlands west of the Western Australian wheatbelt and the forests and woodlands of the Great Western Woodland (GWW) to the east...

...: Carnivora) in coastal forests near Bega, New South Wales Aust. Wildl. Res. 17 61 68 Lynch, J. F. and Saunders, D. A., 1991. Responses of bird species to habitat fragmentation in the wheatbelt of Western Australia: interiors, edges and corridors. Chapter 14 (Pp. 143-58) in Nature Conservation 2...

... the western wheatbelt; mesic coastal scrub sites around Albany; mesic forest habitat in the far south-west corner at Margaret River, Busselton, and Bunbury; semi-arid pastoral sites at Carnarvon and Gascoyne Junction; and semi-arid mining sites at Southern Cross, Kalgoorlie and Laverton. Shortridge was struck...

... while his ship was careened for repairs. Ford (1980) used morphometric data to examine the relationships among various populations of Red-tailed Black Cockatoos, focussing particularly on the populations in south-western Australia. He concluded that the population in the northern wheatbelt, Murchison...