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Australian high country owls [[electronic resource] /] / Jerry Olsen



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Autore: Olsen Jerry Visualizza persona
Titolo: Australian high country owls [[electronic resource] /] / Jerry Olsen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Collingwood, Vic., : CSIRO Pub., 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
Disciplina: 598.97
598.970994
Soggetto topico: Owls - Australia
Mountain animals - Australia
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: Descriptions, anecdotes and conservation issues referring to Australia's major owl species.
Titolo autorizzato: Australian high country owls  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-35511-6
9786613355119
0-643-10410-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910461733303321
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