Australian High Country Owls.

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Descriptions, anecdotes and conservation issues referring to Australia's major owl species.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Olsen, Jerry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, 2011.
Temas:
Owls > Australia.
Owls > Australia > Identification.
Mountain animals > Australia.
Faune alpestre > Australie.
NATURE > Animals > Birds.
NATURE > Birdwatching Guides.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Ornithology.
Mountain animals
Owls
Australia
Field guides
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; What is an owl?; What is a Ninox?; What is a Southern Boobook?; Studying owls; David Fleay; Surveying owls; Finding owls; Trapping and handling owls; Telemetry; Diet and hunting
  • medium-sized owls; Spotted Owls; Boobook summer diet; Boobook prey size; Northern Hawk-Owls and Long-eared Owls; Winter Boobook diet; Great Horned Owls and versatility; Great Grey Owls and wing formulae; Powerful Owl diet; Forest owl diets; Powerful Owls and dimorphism; Breeding; Southern Boobook calls; Borders; Duetting and duelling; Weather and calling.
  • A lover's trianglePre-breeding behaviour; Colour plates; Nests and breeding habitat; Timing of breeding; Pair behaviour
  • incubation; Pair behaviour
  • prey deliveries; Fledging age; Female desertion; Fledgling behaviour; Snowy Owls; David Lack's theory of limiting factors; Tawny Owls in Kielder Forest; Duelling and nest failures; Conservation; Spotted Owls; Athene and Burrowing Owls; Little Owls; Conserving Australian owls; Conservation techniques; Wallacea; Wallacea; Sumba Barn Owls; Sumba Boobook; New species; Eviction; Appendix A: Australian owls.
  • Appendix B: Rehabilitating injured and orphaned owlsReferences; Index.

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