10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APOSTLE BIRD»
Discover the use of
apostle bird in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
apostle bird and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The Apostle Bird is an evocatively written and compelling study of prejudice, honour and courage from Garry Disher, bestselling author of The Divine Wind and The Bamboo Flute.
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Copper Smith & the Battle of the Bands
urged the whooper swan, seeing that the apostle Bird was now finishing. the
whooper swan tore the apostle Bird away from his captivated audience and soon
they were flying off into the crisp daylight and making their way south. Birds are ...
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Australian
Bird Names: A Complete Guide
Other names: Jay, Black Jay or Black Magpie; Apostle-bird, for its group living;
Mutton-bird, perhaps because it was eaten but more likely because of confusion
with Pied Currawong (q.v.); Chatterer, well-merited. Corcorax melanorhamphos ...
Jeannie Gray, Ian Fraser, 2013
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Handbook of Australian Languages
... Burwood) crow kookaburra kingfisher (green and blue) gulu magpie gudalbufu
peewee, mudlark widiti willy wagtail Qlndigindi apostle bird bower bird bellbird
soldier bird, noisy miner white (sulphur—crested) cockatoo pink (Major Mitchell) ...
R.M.W. Dixon, Barry J. Blake, 1981
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The Food of Australian Birds 2. Passerines
Studies of the Apostle Bird at Inverell. I. General behaviour. Sun bird, 5, 77. 15.
Baldwin, M. (1975). Birds of the Inverell district, N.S.W. Emu, 75, 113-20. 16.
Baldwin, M. (1976). Striped Honeyeater and case moth. Canberra Bird Notes, 3(6
), 25.
RD Barker, WJM Vestjens, 1990
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Four of Diamonds: An Australian's Journey
Glossary abo: an Aborigine; sometimes used pejoratively Akubra: an Australian
hatmaker ANZAC: an Australian; an acronym for Australian and New Zealand
Army Corps (World War One) apostle bird: a noisy bird, flocks of which make an ...
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Water in a Dry Land: Place-learning Through Art and Story
... there's only a couple around, he's totally different to all the other birds, him and
the Twelve Apostle, there's Mudlark, the Pee Wee, he make a nest out of mud,
like a mud wasp, and then him and the Apostle bird, Lousy Jack, he makes it out
of ...
Margaret Somerville, 2013
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The Australian
Bird Watcher
The Apostle-bird is more an associate than an enemy, but more than once they
have been cruelly jabbed by the Choughs. A Chough distracted an Apostle-bird,
which was sitting over a bone and "Creeching" , by darting at it allowing a second
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... in the Philippines, where professional collectors have located some little bright
green birds which are among the smallest in the world. They are members of the
babbler or apostle-bird family (Timaliidae) to which Mr Dean Amadon of the ...
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Digital Games: Literacy in Action
Elicit prior knowledge about the student's literacy identity. Illuminate the
understanding of concepts, processes and skills to be learned. Students
compared a computer game with Disher's (1997) The Apostle Bird and simulated
a particularly ...
Catherine Beavis, Joanne O'Mara, Lisa McNeice, 2012
