‘Birds of Australia’
Gray-headed Grebe
Gray-headed Grebe (Poliocephalus poliocephalus) - One of the two types of bald grebes, family of birds pogankovyh, which can be found in all states of Australia and the island Tasmania.
Gray-headed Grebe inhabits salt and fresh water and feed on small aquatic arthropods, where she catches a deep diving into the water, well in low light searches for food on the water surface.
Gray-headed Grebe - a small and stocky bird, its length is 29-31 cm, and weighs about 250 gr. Plumage gray-headed grebes dark gray or white with a narrow black stripe on the back of the neck.
Males and females are gray-headed Grebe looks with each other do not differ, except for the beak dark with a light tip, which is slightly longer in males than in females.
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Chicken Goose
Chicken Goose ( Cereopsis novaehollandiae) - Bird species in the subfamily of the family duck goose, living in South Australia And on Tasmania. Chicken geese live on land, rapidly running, Geese swim poorly, and fly hard and reluctantly. Fed goose grass.
Chicken Goose, This is a fairly large bird reaches a length of 75 до 100 cm, with the weight of 3 доbeforeg.
Chicken little goose head, neck is short, high with a curved beak, black tip, resembling chicken yellow. In chicken goose long red webbed paws with small. Colouring goose gray with light spots.
Black swan
Black swan ( Cygnus atratus) - The bird kind of swans, family of ducks, roams across Australia and the island Tasmania.
Black swan, Unlike many water birds and other species of swans is not a migratory bird and lives in shallow ponds with fresh water, and outside the mating season can be found near the shores of rivers.
Despite the fact that a black swan is not a migratory bird, Nevertheless, he is very mobile and even small disturbances in his usual habitation, could push him to change the seat, However, new location is usually located within 100 km from the old. Black Swans spend their entire lives in the same general region where they were born and grew up, responsive to changes in water level, and in dry years, a lot of swans collected on the coasts of Australia.