Birds of Australia's Top End

Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow with Michael Stott

 TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

FOREWORDS

MAP OF TOP END

MAP OF DARWIN AND HINTERLAND

PLATE LIST  

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

USING THIS

CONTENTS OF THE TEXT

ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE/ IN FORMATION

WHEN TO WATCH BIRDS             

WHERE TO WATCH BIRDS

ATTRACTING BIRDS TO YOUR GARDEN

CONSERVATION

BIRDWATCHING TOURISM

SAFETY        

BIRD FIRST AID EVOLUTION OF BIRDS

AUSTRALIAN BIRDS

BIRD PHSYIOLOGY

PARTS OF THE BIRD

PLATES  (28 separate plates)

 

FIELDGUIDE

Emu

Scrubfowl

Quail Geese and Ducks

Grebes

Petrels and Shearwaters

Booby

Darter 

Cormorants

Pelican

Frigatebirds

Herons and Egrets

Ibis and Spoonbills

Stork

Diurnal Birds of Prey

Cranes            

Crakes, Rails and Moorhens

Bustard

Button-quails

Sandpipers

Snipe, Painted

Jacana

Stone-curlew

Oyster-catcher

Stilt and Avocet

Plovers

Pratincoles      

Gulls and Terns

Pigeons and Doves

Cockatoos and Parrots           

Owls and Allies

Swift  

Kingfishers, Bee-eaters and Rollers   

Perching birds

True Songbirds

 

FURTHER READING          

INDEX OF SCIENTIFIC NAMES   

INDEX OF COMMON NAMES

 

PLATE LIST

01. Brolga, emu, crane, bustard, stork, Great-billed heron

02. Quail and button-quail

03. Ducks and magpie-goose

04. Tube-nosed seabirds, cormorants, grebes

05. Herons, ibis

06. Accipitrid birds of prey

07. Accipitrids and falcons

08. Crakes and rails

09. Wading-birds

10. Wading-birds

11. Snipe, stone-curlew, oyster-catchers, pratincoles, wading-birds

12. Gulls and terns

13. Pigeons, doves and pitta

14. Cockatoos and parrots

15. Cuckoos

16. Owl and allies

17. Kingfishers and allies

18. Fairy-wrens and grasswrens

19. Weebill, gerygones, pardalotes and mistletoebird

20. Friarbirds, honeyeaters and chats

21. Honeyeaters

22. Robins, whistlers and shrike-tit

23. Flycatchers and fantails

24. Orioles, figbird, treecreeper, sh ri ke-th rushes, apostle-bird, babbler and bowerbird

25. Trillers, cuckoo-shrikes, cicadabird and butcherbirds

26. Martins, swallows, swifts and woodswallows

27. Finches

28. Cisticolas, grassbirds, wagtails, larks and pipit

 

 © 2002 Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow

Published by Scrubfowl Press

P.O. Box 1023

Parap, Northern Territory

Australia 0804

 

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