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Australian bird habitats:
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Description of habitat |
Commercial crops, while growing, can offer shelter and, once ripe, a food resource. Obviously, crops are only temporary habitats and the bird population will vary greatly with the seasons. Some bird species use crops only as a food source, others actually live (and in some cases nest) in the fields, as long as the plants growing there provide them with shelter (and farm machinery does not destroy their habitat).
Some bird species specialise in foraging on fallow fields. These are listed separately below.
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Bird species found in this type of habitat or plant |
This is not necessarily a complete list. We display here some examples of bird species found by us in this kind of habitat or plant. Hover your cursor on thumbnails to see names of species; click on thumbnail to go to the page describing the species.
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Example of a crop that can attract birds, either to hide in the
dense growth or to feed on the seeds - sorghum harvest on a
broadacre farm
Spotted Harrier
hunting along the edges of a wheat field while it is being harvested
Emus using sunflowers
for cover; at the time there were no kernels for the birds to
feed on
Australian Pipit
in a wheat field
Blue Bonnets
in sunflowers
Fallow fields
Several bird species specialise in foraging on fallow fields. Some of the same species can also be found in the gibber plains of the Australian interior.
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Bird species found in this type of habitat or plant |
This is not necessarily a complete list. We display here some examples of bird species found by us in this kind of habitat or plant. Hover your cursor on thumbnails to see names of species; click on thumbnail to go to the page describing the species.
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Example of a fallow field, in this case wheat stubble
Spotted Harrier
hunting above wheat stubble
[Near Bellata, NSW, November 2013]
Black-faced Woodswallow on a clod of soil in a fallow field
[Near Cryon, NSW, June 2012]
