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Emu - Austral Ornithology is the premier journal for ornithological research and reviews related to the Southern Hemisphere and adjacent tropics. More

Editor: Kate Buchanan

 
 
 

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Published online 07 May 2013
Reduced rainfall explains avian declines in an unfragmented landscape: incremental steps toward an empty forest? 
Helen C. Stevens and David M. Watson
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Published online 07 May 2013
Use of terrestrial habitats by burrow-nesting seabirds in south-eastern Australia 
Nicole Schumann, Peter Dann and John P. Y. Arnould
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Published online 07 May 2013
Latitudinal differences in the breeding phenology of Grey Warblers covary with the relationship to the prevalence of parasitism by Shining Bronze-Cuckoos 
Michael G. Anderson, Brian J. Gill, James V. Briskie, Dianne H. Brunton and Mark E. Hauber
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Published online 01 May 2013
Female-biased mortality of Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) on the wintering grounds 
Ralph Eric Thijl Vanstreels, Andréa Corrado Adornes, Paula Lima Canabarro, Valeria Ruoppolo, Rodolfo Pinho da Silva-Filho and José Luiz Catão-Dias
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Published online 08 April 2013
Effect of passage through the gut of Greater Rheas on the germination of seeds of plants of cerrado and caatinga grasslands 
Cristiano Schetini de Azevedo, Mayara Correa da Silva, Tatiane Pinho Teixeira, Robert John Young, Queila Souza Garcia and Marcos Rodrigues
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Published online 21 February 2013
Song variation among Chatham Island Warblers on two islands of the Chatham Island archipelago 
Stewart W. Janes
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Published online 21 February 2013
Chatter-call harmonics in the North Island Saddleback: do they play a role in ranging? 
Joseph F. Azar, Ben D. Bell and K. C. Burns
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Published online 15 February 2013
Dietary characteristics of Emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae) in semi-arid New South Wales, Australia, and dispersal and germination of ingested seeds 
Heath Dunstan, Singarayer K. Florentine, Maria Calviño-Cancela, Martin E. Westbrooke and Grant C. Palmer
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Foraging behaviour of the Peaceful Dove (Geopelia striata) in relation to predation risk: group size and predator cues in a natural environment 
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Lei (Stanley) Tang and Lin Schwarzkopf
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A negative trade-off between current reproductive effort and reproductive success: an experiment with clutch-size in a tropical bird 
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Nadinni O. M. Sousa and Miguel Â. Marini
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A hot environment and one type of prey: investigating why the Grey Falcon (Falco hypoleucos) is Australia's rarest falcon 
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Jonny Schoenjahn
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Resource availability and foraging of Silvereyes (Zosterops lateralis) in urban trees 
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Edward Waite, Gerard P. Closs, Yolanda van Heezik and Katharine J. M. Dickinson
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Emergence, growth, ageing and provisioning of Providence Petrel (Pterodroma solandri) chicks: implications for translocation 
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Daniela Binder, David Priddel, Nicholas Carlile and Richard T. Kingsford
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Inter-island differences in the corticosterone responses of North Island Saddlebacks (Philesturnus rufusater) in New Zealand do not suggest selective effects of translocation 
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Nigel J. Adams, Kevin A. Parker, John F. Cockrem, Dianne H. Brunton and E. Jane Candy
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Avian assemblages in bamboo and non-bamboo habitats in a tropical rainforest 
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Débora Cristina Rother, Kaizer José Ferreira Alves and Marco Aurélio Pizo
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The influence of supplemental feeding on survival, dispersal and competition in translocated Brown Teal, or Pateke (Anas chlorotis) 
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Jennifer Rickett, Cody J. Dey, Jillian Stothart, Constance M. O'Connor, James S. Quinn and Weihong Ji
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The diet of Olrog’s Gull (Larus atlanticus) reveals an association with fisheries during the non-breeding season 
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María Paula Berón, Juan Pablo Seco Pon, Germán O. García, Carla A. Paterlini, Rocío Mariano-Jelicich and Marco Favero
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The effects of nest usurpation and other interference by the Blue-faced Honeyeater on the reproductive success of the Grey-crowned Babbler 
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Kazuhiro Eguchi, Noriyuki Yamaguchi, Keisuke Ueda and Richard A. Noske
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Factors influencing the behavioural development of juvenile New Zealand Falcons (Falco novaeseelandiae) 
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Sara M. Kross and Ximena J. Nelson
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Book reviews 
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These articles have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication. They are still in production and have not been edited, so may differ from the final published form.

    MU12062  Accepted 10 May 2013
    Nesting success and productivity of Tucuman Parrots in high-altitude forests of Argentina: do they differ from lowland Amazona parrots?
    Luis Rivera, Natalia Politi, Enrique Bucher, Anna Pidgeon
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    MU12079  Accepted 23 April 2013
    Fairy-wrens as a model system for studying cuckoo – host coevolution
    Naomi Langmore
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    MU13006  Accepted 12 April 2013
    Experimental evidence on the local variation in the Great Bowerbird’s colour preferences for bower decorations
    Naoko Haruyama, Noriyuki Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro Eguchi, Richard Noske
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    MU13012  Accepted 10 April 2013
    Prevalence and diversity of avian haematozoa in three Australian passerine species
    Shandiya Balasubramaniam, Raoul Mulder, Paul Sunnucks, Alexandra Pavlova, J Amos, Jane Melville
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    MU12078  Accepted 10 April 2013
    Song evolution in Maluridae: influences of natural and sexual selection on acoustic structure
    Emma Greig, J. Jordan Price, Stephen Pruett-Jones
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    MU12106  Accepted 27 March 2013
    Are haematocrit and haemoglobin concentration reliable body condition indicators in adult welcome swallows?
    Alan Lill, Lara Yachou-Wos, Christopher Johnstone
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    MU12066  Accepted 27 March 2013
    When subspecies matter: resident Superb Fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus) distinguish the sex and subspecies of intruder birds
    Sonia Kleindorfer, Christine Evans, Milla Mihailova, Diane Colombelli-Negrel, Herbert Hoi, Matteo Griggio, Katharina Mahr, Jeremy Robertson
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    MU12076  Accepted 27 March 2013
    Is geographical size variation in Australian shorebirds consistent with hypotheses on differential migration?
    Silke Nebel, Ken Rogers, Clive Minton, Danny Rogers
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    MU12098  Accepted 25 March 2013
    Do bird species richness and community structure vary with mistletoe flowering and fruiting in Western Australia?
    Kathryn Napier, Suzanne Mather, Todd McWhorter, Patricia Fleming
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    MU12108  Accepted 20 March 2013
    Influence of moult and location on daily movement patterns of Egyptian Geese in Southern Africa.
    Mduduzi Ndlovu, Graeme Cumming, Philip Hockey
   


    MU12075  Accepted 22 February 2013
    The conservation status of Australian malurids and their value as models to understand land management issues
    Anja Skroblin, Steve Murphy
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    MU12107  Accepted 14 February 2013
    Tolerance of human disturbance by common mynas across an urban-rural interface
    Ashlee McGiffin, Alan Lill, Juliey Beckman, Christopher Johnstone
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    MU12040  Accepted 14 February 2013
    Comparative foraging behaviour of sympatric Humboldt and Magellanic penguins reveals species-and sex- specific strategies
    Andrea Raya Rey, Klemens Pütz, Alejandro Simeone, Luciano Hiriart-Bertrand, Ronnie Reyes-Arriagada, Victoria Riquelme, Benno Lüthi
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    MU12048  Accepted 08 February 2013
    Group size variability in communal roosts: influence of age-class, abundance of individuals and roost site
    Sergio Lambertucci
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    MU12083  Accepted 10 January 2013
    Seasonal male plumage as a multicomponent sexual signal: insights and opportunities
    Anne Peters, Sjouke Kingma, Kaspar Delhey
   


    MU12081  Accepted 10 January 2013
    The Maluridae: inferring avian biology and evolutionary history from DNA sequences
    Leo Joseph, Scott Edwards, Alison McLean
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    MU12094  Accepted 29 November 2012
    Evolutionary origins and persistence of infidelity in Malurus: the least faithful birds
    Andrew Cockburn, Lyanne Brouwer, Mike Double, Nicolas Margraf, Martijn van de Pol
   


    MU12064  Accepted 20 September 2012
    Biological parameters of the Sooty Shearwater (Ardenna grisea) on Long Island, New Zealand
    Amelia Geary, Steve Corin, Nicola Nelson
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1. Published 21 February 2011
The causes of decline of birds of eucalypt woodlands: advances in our knowledge over the last 10 years

Hugh A. Ford

2. Published 21 February 2011
Relative influence of habitat modification and interspecific competition on woodland bird assemblages in eastern Australia

M. Maron, A. Main, M. Bowen, A. Howes, J. Kath, C. Pillette and C. A. McAlpine

3. Published 21 February 2011
A productivity-based explanation for woodland bird declines: poorer soils yield less food

David M. Watson

4. Published 21 February 2011
Paying the extinction debt: woodland birds in the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia

Judit K. Szabo, Peter A. Vesk, Peter W. J. Baxter and Hugh P. Possingham

5. Published 21 February 2011
Towards modelling persistence of woodland birds: the role of genetics

Paul Sunnucks

6. Published 30 November 2011
Temporal and spatial variability of breeding in Australian birds and the potential implications of climate change

Heather M. Gibbs, Lynda E. Chambers and Andrew F. Bennett

7. Published 21 February 2011
Dispersal behaviour of Brown Treecreepers predicts functional connectivity for several other woodland birds

Veronica A. J. Doerr, Erik D. Doerr and Micah J. Davies

8. Published 24 August 2011
Observed and predicted effects of climate on Australian seabirds

Lynda E. Chambers, Carol A. Devney, Bradley C. Congdon, Nic Dunlop, Eric J. Woehler and Peter Dann

9. Published 24 August 2011
Survival in the Orange-bellied Parrot (Neophema chrysogaster)

Mark Holdsworth, Belinda Dettmann and G. Barry Baker

10. Published 26 May 2010
Seasonal population dynamics of the Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis molucca) in urban environments

Andrew C. M. Smith and Ursula Munro

11. Published 21 February 2011
The distribution of three nocturnal bird species across a suburban–forest gradient

M. J. Weaving, J. G. White, B. Isaac and R. Cooke

12. Published 30 November 2010
Managing the Ground Parrot in its fiery habitat in south-eastern Australia

Jack Baker, Robert J. Whelan, Lyn Evans, Stephen Moore and Melinda Norton

13. Published 30 November 2010
The impact of Pleistocene changes of climate and landscape on Australian birds: a test using the Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis)

Anna M. Kearns, Leo Joseph and Lyn G. Cook

14. Published 21 August 2012
Nesting requirements of the endangered Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor)

Matthew H. Webb, Mark C. Holdsworth and Janneke Webb

15. Published 27 May 2011
Changes in the avifauna of Cape York Peninsula over a period of 9 years: the relative effects of fire, vegetation type and climate

J. J. Perry, A. S. Kutt, S. T. Garnett, G. M. Crowley, E. P. Vanderduys and G. C. Perkins

16. Published 24 February 2012
Temporal variation in a savanna bird assemblage: what changes over 5 years?

A. S. Kutt, G. C. Perkins, N. Colman, E. P. Vanderduys and J. J. Perry

17. Published 23 May 2012
Relative levels of food aggression displayed by Common Mynas when foraging with other bird species in suburbia

K. M. Haythorpe, D. Sulikowski and D. Burke

18. Published 21 February 2011
Population decline of the White-fronted Chat (Epthianura albifrons) in New South Wales, Australia

Ben Jenner, Kris French, Katherine Oxenham and Richard E. Major

19. Published 30 November 2011
The foraging range of Little Penguins (Eudyptula minor) during winter

C. McCutcheon, P. Dann, M. Salton, L. Renwick, A. J. Hoskins, A. M. Gormley and J. P. Y. Arnould

20. Published 26 May 2010
Comparing bird species richness and assemblage composition between montane ash eucalypt forest and cool temperate rainforests – an empirical study from Victoria, south-eastern Australia

D. B. Lindenmayer, J. T. Wood, L. McBurney, D. Michael, M. Crane, C. MacGregor and R. Montague-Drake


      
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