
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Carrick, R 
A1  - Turnbull, N 
T1  - Second annual report of the Australian Bird-banding Scheme, July 1955 to June 1956
JF  - CSIRO Wildlife Research
JO  - CSIRO Wildl. Res.
Y1  - 1956
VL  - 1
IS  - 2
SP  - 114
EP  - 130
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CWR9560114 
N2  - During 1955&ndash;56, 12,500 birds of 107 species were banded, and 708 recoveries, involving 543 individuals of 39 species, were reported. The scheme is used in 10 detailed studies of single species, 5 of which involve individual colour-banding, and in 18 extensive studies, 6 of which involve group-marking with colour bands. Two cooperative schemes are in progress, one on the crested tern, Sterna bergii Lichtenstein (1948 birds banded), and silver gull, Larus novae-hollandiae Stephens (4531 birds banded), throughout Australia, and the other on parrots in Western Australia. The full data for 82 recoveries are given. The large-scale movement of young giant-petrels, Macronectes giganteus (Gmelin), from Heard Island and Macquarie Island is confirmed, and it is also shown that these birds remain in lower latitudes into their second year. There is a wide dispersal of crested terns (13 records) and silver gulls (66 records) from their breeding-places, mainly northwards especially in the case of the gulls in eastern Australia. 
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