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Waterbird breeding colonies in the Top End of the Northern Territory

Details:

Title

Waterbird breeding colonies in the Top End of the Northern Territory,

Creator

Chatto, Ray, Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory,

Collection

E-Publications, E-Books, PublicationNT, Technical Report 69/2000.,

Date

2000,

Notes

Date:2000, Cover title., Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT),

Table of contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF PLATES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES -- STUDY AREA AND ENVIRONMENT -- SPECIES SELECTED -- METHODS -- General summary -- Survey types -- Geographic coverage -- Temporal coverage -- Quality of numerical estimates -- Separation of species in surveys -- THE SITES -- THE COLONIES -- Geographic distribution -- Numbers -- Seasonality -- THE SPECIES -- Top End breeders -- Intermediate Egret -- Great Egret -- Little Egret -- Cattle Egret -- Little Pied Cormorant -- Little Black Cormorant -- Pied Cormorant -- Darter -- Pied Heron -- Nankeen Night Heron -- Australian White Ibis -- Glossy Ibis -- Straw-Necked Ibis -- Royal Spoonbill -- Australian Pelican -- Colonial breeding waterbirds that do not nest colonially in the Top End -- Great Cormorant -- Eurasian Coot -- Purple Swamphen -- Black-Winged Stilt -- Red-Necked Avocet, Gull-Billed Tern And Whiskered Tern -- FUTURE MANAGEMENT -- REFERENCES -- PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS -- APPENDIX A. -- Summary tables of confirmed colonies -- APPENDIX B -- Individual colony breakdown for confirmed colonies (W001-W076). -- APPENDIX C -- Individual colony breakdown for possible and/or historic colonies (W901-W956).,

Language

English,

Subject

Herons, Cormorants -- Breeding -- Australia, Northern, Cormorants, Darter, Ibises, Herons -- Breeding -- Australia, Northern, Royal Spoonbill, Water Birds -- Breeding -- Australia, Northern, Egrets, Darter -- Breeding -- Australia, Northern, Australia, Northern, Breeding, Royal Spoonbill -- Breeding -- Australia, Northern, Water Birds, Australian Pelican, Australian Pelican -- Breeding -- Australia, Northern, Ibises -- Breeding -- Australia, Northern, Egrets -- Breeding -- Australia, Northern,

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government,

Place of publication

Palmerston,

Series

Technical Report 69/2000.,

Format

ix, 156 pages : colour illustration ; 30 cm.,

File type

application/pdf,

ISBN

724577745,

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government,

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/203072,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/716595