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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

’ Ironically, this is from Birds of Australia , which scholars and art historians suspect was more Elizabeth’s work than John’s.*. There are two subjects which I think could have been explored more thoroughly–women in ornithological history and colonialism. Birkhead knows that these are sensitive topics.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 218

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JULY 21, 2013

We often see them flying from place to place collecting items for their bowers and they are rather clever at imitating other birds vocal sounds. In a period of a week it had filled up the inside of the bower with a collection of brand new shiny tech screws. The green glass collection.

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Collecting Branding Australia Humane 167

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Keep River National Park is situated just over the border when you leave Western Australia and enter the Northern Territory and is always worth stopping off at for a night or two. At other sites they will collect items of a less natural state to lure a mate.

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Collecting Shelters Australia Species 125

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MARCH 2, 2014

Bird hides are very rare around Western Australia and they are ideal for observing birds at close range, but so are vehicles! It has taken us around Western Australia on sealed and unsealed roads and over into the Northern Territory and shown us some amazing birding sights. The Spear Grass collection from the overgrown track.

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JUNE 4, 2023

They are leaving it somewhere and the Torresian Crows are collecting it up and bringing it to our garden! Torresian Crow finishing the Vegemite bread We have come to the conclusion that someone in our neighbourhood is being given Vegemite bread and they don’t like it. This is continuing to happen!

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales. As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.

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Research Birds Science Costa Rica 221

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AUGUST 18, 2019

As usual there is a beautifully constructed bower made of sticks and a great collection of items to attract the female bird. What is surprising is that despite being surrounded by houses the birds have mostly collected natural items. The Great Bowerbirds like to collect both white and green. Parsley among the items.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2013

While everyone in the northern hemisphere is enjoying all that winter has to offer as far as food goes, we are currently enjoying all that summer has to offer in the north of Australia. Birding Australia bowerbirds Broome deformities Friarbirds parrots' Luckily we do have a tree, but it is now too tall for us to harvest the whole crop.

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Parrots Birds Australia Bats 164

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MAY 20, 2018

Having spent some time at the Barndarlmada Hut we continued to circumnavigate the fence to return to collect our vehicle. We have observed White-fronted Chats as well this year in the south of Western Australia, but were unable to photograph them as they hopped around the salt-bush.

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2018 Ducks Australia Collecting 100

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AUGUST 19, 2016

Author Ray Reedman writes from a British point of view, with some time devoted to the birds of North America, Australia and other former colonies but the bulk of the space given over to European species. Lapwings, Loons & Lousy Jacks: The How and Why of Bird Names by Ray Reedman, Pelagic Publishing, $29.99.

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North America America Birds Science 122

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JANUARY 10, 2021

The Australian Hobby have been collecting the cicadas and taking them back to the nest. Over recent weeks we have been watching the activity at a telecommunication tower between the airport and Frederick Street opposite the Broome Senior High School. Australian Hobby returning to the nest.

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Breeding Collecting Family Birds 148

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MARCH 31, 2013

We own at least one of each field-guide available for Australia as the information and drawings in each is slightly different and each has its benefits. We slowed right down as we knew there would be several of the birds present and being the fearless birds they are we didn’t want to collect them on the front of our car.

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Investigation Australia Family Collecting 165

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The other New Zealand eagle was also one described from the fossil record, from the collections of the very same Henry Forbes that the harrier was named after. Here’s a hint, no other bones of a sea-eagle where ever found in the Chathams, and Forbes is known to have collected midden material from British Columbia.

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Eagles New Zealand Bald Eagle Collecting 101

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JANUARY 21, 2016

You know the captain’s name already: the Ross’s Gull was named after Ross who collected the type specimen in 1823 on Melville Peninsula in the Canadian Arctic. Curiously, in 1831, McCormick was appointed a surgeon on HMS Beagle under the command of Captain FitzRoy and he expected to put together a sizeable natural history collection.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 171

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

In the north of Australia we also have changing colours, but it is not the foliage that changes. By collecting data and following individual birds it is possible to provide data to both governments and environmental groups to help protect the habitat both here and overseas into the future. Get yours today! Very well done! I am a man.

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2011 Australia Deer China 150

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APRIL 3, 2022

There are also quite a few orange traffic cones to collect at some stage, which have floated away from the highway. Although the land is still very flooded there has been some easing of water flowing across the highway and it is open with caution to all traffic.

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2013 Collecting Hunting Species 205

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 24, 2010

Heart U Back also supports animal protection agencies on a global level, including Canada (OSPCA and BCSPCA), Australia (RSPCA), and the UK (RSPCA). From the site: The Heart U Back Collection of jewelry has been uniquely designed and created to express the heart-warming bond between pet and the pet owner. “The

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2019

Every year the weather is incredibly varied across Australia and the birds need to adapt to the changing landscape and environment. Painted Finches are found in arid areas of Australia, but like all finches they do require water to survive. We had never observed this behaviour with any of the finch species we have in Australia.

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Collecting Australia Pets Family 119

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MARCH 11, 2012

The main reason for them doing so is due to them needing very little water and they collect the seeds to establish more plants. Storm Lilies As you can see, there are some beautiful native plants here in the north-west of Australia and there is no need to fill your garden with palm trees!

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Birds Australia Collecting Groups 158

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JULY 28, 2013

Birdlife may guide you to water, but it would be unwise to travel without ample supplies and we carried 50 litres of drinking water and a bucket with a long rope to collect water where there may by crocodiles present. Trips Australia Boabs Broome' Boabs, rocks and the moon.

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Birds Collecting Australia Family 153

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Cape Petrel in flight, showing the distinctive wing pattern Cape Petrels disperse widely during the Austral winter, making them a possibility for anyone birding such waters as Brazil, South Africa or Australia during this time.

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New Zealand Albatross South Africa Brazil 158

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2013

Keep River National Park sits on the border of Western Australia and the Northern Territory and it is entered from just over the border. It obviously had a bit of a bone fetish and had collected bones from both bird and animal. Trips Australia northern territory' Aboriginal cave drawings.

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Shelters Australia Zebras Collecting 160

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

It is the one area of beach that is mostly clear of the algae and where the shorebirds can walk without it collecting around their feet. Birding Australia Broome Lyngbya shorebirds' I have still seen shorebirds with large clumps of it around their feet, but it would be unavoidable because they feed once the tide drops back.

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China Australia Breeding Collecting 164

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AUGUST 1, 2021

The Pied Oystercatchers moved around the vegetation and collected food for the chick. There is plenty of vegetation for the chick to hide in. The chick is just to the right of the adult bird in the photo below in the shade. Pied Oystercatcher and chick. The chick was obedient and did not move out of the shadows until the call changed.

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Eggs Feral Cats Feral Fox 258

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

We came home Wednesday evening late and just made it to the airport to collect my parents, who are here for a few days… delayed by a week due to a certain airline grounding it’s planes recently! It was soon identified as a Hoopoe Upupa epops and we got a phone call… along with many others around Australia.

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Egypt South Korea Australia Collecting 188

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2011

The Short-eared Owl has an enormous range, occurring on every continent except for Australia and Antarctica. If you liked this post featuring Short-eared Owl images why not check out 10,000 Clicks , our collection of photo-galleries? Oh, and Doug also managed to digi-bin some video. How cool is that? … a.

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Owls New York City New York Rodents 145

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MAY 9, 2017

Collectively, these federal lands and marine sanctuaries are of critical importance to many of the seabirds seen on pelagic birding trips in the Pacific. All only spend a small—albeit critical—portion of their lives on their breeding grounds. These sanctuaries include some of the most productive waters in the Pacific.

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Albatross Hawaii Alaska Puerto Rico 138

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JULY 26, 2014

But when you meet one in the field or as you read our exceptional collection of essays discussing different aspects of invasive species all over the world, have some sympathy and some taste. This is probably too much to think about every time you encounter what we consider an invasive species.

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Species Feral Cats Feral Miami 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Over the past two weeks I have introduced you to the section of items that Great Bowerbird will collect in a remote area of Keep River National Park with no human influence and then at the Big Horse Creek camping ground. Due to the fact they use the same area for year after year I can tell you where to look even weeks after we were there.

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Collecting Horses Rights Humane 133

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Galahs ( Eolophus roseicapilla ) in Victoria, Australia © David J. Now, you collect the nine pieces of paper from the last generation of copiers. Ringer Suh et al. took a new and very interesting approach to the question. Persons 1 and 2 copy the page exactly and each give it to three other people.

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Parrots Falcons Indonesia Rodents 189

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2013

They also collect white shells, pieces of bone, screws and anything else that takes their fancy and isn’t bolted down! Birding Australia Broome' They prefer green, white and shiny items and the current bowers have been built under the lower branches making it rather hard to photograph them. Great Bowerbird bower.

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Long Beach Australia Falcons Collecting 140

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Cats, along with other introduced mammals, are genuinely a problem in New Zealand in a way they aren’t in most of the rest of the world (Australia has similar problems mostly with foxes and cats). He isn’t arguing that the state should impose this, he’s arguing that we should act collectively.

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New Zealand Possums SPCA Cats 117

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JULY 14, 2011

southern Australia’s cool winter weather and wonderful birds sound mighty appealing right now and 2. The following points stood out to me: “Metaves,&# a collection of disparate and puzzling birds recently grouped by the position of a few molecules in one nuclear gene, is probably not an actual clade.

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Madagascar Birds Louisiana Groups 164

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

Blue-winged Kookaburras eat insects, reptiles and frogs and this bird would often collect quite a large mass of wet and muddy leaves with its food. Sitting on the banks of Ellendale Dam a Blue-winged Kookaburra landed in the tree beside us and swooped several times down into the mud looking for food.

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Reptiles Collecting Birds Australia 113

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AUGUST 25, 2019

If the tide is out a long way during the day the parents will go and collect food and return to them where they stand in the shade of the vegetation. Now the Pied Oystercatcher chicks are more than four weeks old they are often observed without their parents.

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JULY 23, 2021

It is winter here on the east coast of Australia. I would welcome suggestions, in the comments below, for collective nouns to describe this agglomeration. By the way Woodswallows are chunky little insectivorous birds found in the south Pacific, Australia and southern and eastern Asia. Even for some of the birds it is cold.

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Australia Asia Collecting Species 264

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OCTOBER 21, 2018

All along the eastern coast of Australia there are Satin Bowerbirds Ptilonorhychus violaceus. Instead of collecting green and white items they have an obsession with blue. There’s a good mixture of both man-made and natural items on display in the bowers at Big Horse Creek and Katherine Gorge National Park. Male Satin Bowerbird.

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