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Surrey Beatty & Sons in association with CSIRO, Division of Wildlife and Ecology and the Royal Australasian Ornithologists, 1990. Hardcover. Laminated boards. Very Good +. AUSTRALIAN FAUNA Ornithology West Australian Cockatoos are distinctly Australasian both in their origins and in their present-day distributions. Twelve of the nineteen species currently recognised occur on the Australian continent with the remaining seven scattered through the islands to the north. For centuries these large showy birds have been popular as pets in Europe and yet, until fairly recently, little has been known about how they lived in their wild state. Galahas (Eolophus roeicapillus) are the commonest of the cockatoos (acatuinae) and one of the few indigenous species that have thrived throughout European settlements in Australia. Since the First Fleet landed at Botany Bay in 1788 many changes have taken place, and are still proceeding, that have had a massive effect on the fauna and flora of the continent. These…
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- Title Behavioural Ecology of Galahs
- Author Ian Rowley
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Limited, Chipping Norton, NSW, Australia
- Date 1990
- ISBN 9780949324276
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GALAH, THE: Behavioural Ecology of Galah Eolophus Roseicapillus in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia
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