Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Map of hotspots. The East Australia hotspot is marked 30 on map. View inside the crater of Mount Schank from the rim. The East Australia hotspot (which is now believed by some scientists to represent multiple hotspots including a southwestern Cosgrove hotspot) is a volcanic province in southeast Australia which includes the Peak Range in central Queensland, the Main Range on the Queensland-New ...
eBird is an online database of bird observations providing scientists, researchers and amateur naturalists with real-time data about bird distribution and abundance. Originally restricted to sightings from the Western Hemisphere , the project expanded to include New Zealand in 2008, [ 1 ] and again expanded to cover the whole world in June 2010.
This is a list of the wild birds found in Australia including its outlying islands and territories, but excluding the Australian Antarctic Territory.The outlying islands covered include: Christmas, Cocos (Keeling), Ashmore, Torres Strait, Coral Sea, Lord Howe, Norfolk, Macquarie and Heard/McDonald.
The mistletoebird (Dicaeum hirundinaceum), also known as the mistletoe flowerpecker, [2] is a species of flowerpecker native to most of Australia (though absent from Tasmania and the driest desert areas) and also to the eastern Maluku Islands of Indonesia in the Arafura Sea between Australia and New Guinea.
The Threatened Mammal Index "contains population trends for 57 of Australia's threatened or near-threatened terrestrial and marine mammal species". [ 1 ] A study published in Biological Conservation in March 2023 listed 23 species which the authors considered to no longer meet the criteria as threatened species under the EPBC Act. [ 2 ]
They are migratory, travelling to south-eastern Australia in the spring to breed, [5] and then north in the autumn. [6] The Australian rufous fantail tends to feed on small insects in the lower parts of the canopy. They are very active birds making short, frequent flights. They may also hop between foliage or on the ground, during foraging. [4]
Most other diurnal raptors that reside in Australia are considerably smaller and seldom can be said to present great competition to the wedge-tailed eagles, although some, such as swamp harriers (Circus approximans), black-breasted kites and grey goshawks (Accipiter novaehollandiae), are relatively large for their taxon and powerful predators ...
The Pacific emerald dove or brown-capped emerald dove (Chalcophaps longirostris) is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of Indonesia to northern and eastern Australia. It was formerly conspecific with the common emerald dove.