Australian high country owls / / Jerry Olsen
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| Autore: |
Olsen Jerry
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| Titolo: |
Australian high country owls / / Jerry Olsen
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| Pubblicazione: | Collingwood, Vic., : CSIRO Pub., 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (377 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 598.97 |
| 598.970994 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Owls - Australia |
| Mountain animals - Australia | |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 9786613355119 |
| 9780643104112 | |
| 0643104119 | |
| 9781283355117 | |
| 1283355116 | |
| 9780643104105 | |
| 0643104100 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910973782403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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