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1 online resource (377 pages) |
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Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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Appendix B: Rehabilitating injured and orphaned owlsReferences; Index. |
Summary |
Descriptions, anecdotes and conservation issues referring to Australia's major owl species. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Owls -- Australia.
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Owls. |
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Australia. |
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Owls -- Australia -- Identification.
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Genre/Form |
Field guides.
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Mountain animals -- Australia.
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Mountain animals. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- Guidebooks.
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Guidebooks.
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Electronic books -- Guidebooks.
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Guidebooks.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Olsen, Jerry. Australian High Country Owls. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, ©2011 9780643097056 |
ISBN |
9780643104112 (electronic book) |
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0643104119 (electronic book) |
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9780643104105 (electronic book) |
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0643104100 (electronic book) |
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9780643097056 (paperback) |
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