* Einoder, Luke D. and Alastair M. M. Richardson ( 2007 ): Aspects of the Hindlimb Morphology of Some Australian Birds of Prey: A Comparative and Quantitative Study.

It starred the American actor Richard Chamberlain, who was well-known to Australian and world audiences as the eponymous physician in the popular Doctor Kildare TV series, and would later star in the Australian-set major series " The Thorn Birds ".

Birds with a Gondwanan history include the flightless ratites ( the Emu and Southern Cassowary ), megapodes ( the Malleefowl and Australian Brush-turkey ), and a huge group of endemic parrots, order Psittaciformes.

Rod Taylor began his acting career in Australia, appearing in such Australian films as Long John Silver ( 1954 ) before transferring to the United States to become a Hollywood leading man of the 1960s and 70s, with starring roles in The Time Machine ( 1960 ) and The Birds ( 1963 ).

* Birds including the eponymous Black Swan, Silver Gull, Cormorants ( locally referred to as ' shags '), Twenty-eight parrots, Rainbow Lorikeet, Kingfisher, Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, Australian Pelican, Australian Magpie, Heron, Ducks

The bird has also been given the name " Australian Crane ", a term coined in 1865 by well-known ornithological artist John Gould in his Birds of Australia.

* MacDonald JD ( 1987 ) The Illustrated Dictionary of Australian Birds by Common Name, Reed, p40, ISBN 0-7301-0184-3

* Slater P, Slater P and Slater R ( 1995 ) The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds, Landowne Publishing Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW, Australia, p50, ISBN 0-947116-99-0

Birds that may be spotted in the park include: Australian Magpies ( Cracticus tibicen ), Golden Whistlers ( Pachycephala pectoralis ), green winged pigeons, grey fantails ( Rhipidura ), kookaburras ( genus Dacelo ), large-billed Scrubwrens ( Sericornis magnirostris ), Spotted Pardalotes ( Pardalotus punctatus ), pied currawongs ( Strepera graculina ), Striated Thornbills ( Acanthiza lineata ) and White-browed Scrubwrens ( Sericornis frontalis ).

* Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds, the HANZAB list for Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the surrounding ocean and subantarctic islands.

* Birds Australia, also known as the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, the leading Australian NGO for birds, birding, ornithology and conservation

* The Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds ( HANZAB ), the pre-eminent scientific reference, in seven volumes.

* The New Atlas of Australian Birds, an extensive detailed survey of Australian bird distributions.

* The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000, Garnett, Stephen T .; & Crowley, Gabriel M., Environment Australia, Canberra, 2000 ISBN 0-642-54683-5, a comprehensive survey of the conservation status of Australian species, with costed conservation and recovery strategies.

* Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds was once the standard general reference, but is now somewhat dated.

* Slater: The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds, Slater P, Slater P and Slater R, 2009 revised edition

* Morcombe: Field Guide to Australian Birds, Morcombe, M, 2nd edition 2003, and complete compact edition 2004

* Trounson: Australian Birds: A Concise Photographic Field Guide, Trounson D and Trounson M, 2005 reprint

* Action Plan for Australian Birds 2000-PDF download

* The Australian / Vogel Literary Award: Brian Castro, Birds of Passage ; Nigel Krauth, Matilda, My Darling

* Murray, P. F. & Vickers-Rich, P. ( 2004 ) Magnificent Mihirungs: The Colossal Flightless Birds of the Australian Dreamtime.

However, Twomey expresses confidence that, if the High Court of Australia were to be faced with the problems of covering clause 2, it would find some way to conclude that, with regard to Australia, the clause is subject solely to Australian law.

* Refused Classification Website covering in varying detail many films that have run foul of the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification, with separate sections for hardcore films and computer games

* Climate statistics for Australian locations-Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse Detailed observations from the weather station covering Wilsons Promontory.

After the region was finally investigated by the Land Conservation Council in 1986 two more blocks to the west were added, thus covering all the sandy areas up to the South Australian border.

** City of Adelaide, the South Australian local government area covering the city centre, North Adelaide and the parklands

** Electoral district of Albany, the district of the Western Australian Legislative Council covering Albany

The National Film and Sound Archive in Australia holds the Cinesound Movietone Australian Newsreel Collection, a comprehensive collection of 4, 000 newsreel films and documentaries representing news stories covering all major events

Losing out to the more experienced Charles Bean for the position of official Australian correspondent covering the 1914 war, in 1915 he was appointed managing editor of the London cable service run by the Sun and the Melbourne Herald.

Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates, however, said in a press conference that their swimmers would be allowed to wear the futuristic neck to ankle covering suits, but would do so " at their own risk ".

As well as showing five back-to-back episodes ( 81 – 85, covering the failed jailbreak of terrorist Janet Dominquez ), it also featured a special edition of the quiz show 100 % ( incidentally, also a Reg Grundy production ), which featured three contestants who battled for the top prize and all 100 questions were about the Australian prison soap.

A tire ( in American English and Canadian English ) or tyre ( in British English, New Zealand English, Australian English and others ) is a ring-shaped covering that fits around a wheel rim to protect it and enable better vehicle performance by providing a flexible cushion that absorbs shock while keeping the wheel in close contact with the ground.

* Triodia ( plant genus ), a hummock grass of arid Australia, covering twenty percent of the Australian continent ( although not technically Spinifex, it is commonly referred to as such )

Sent north to reinforce Lone Pine, due to the effectiveness of the Australian attack, Kannengiesser's 9th Division was directed instead to proceed on to Chunuk Bair where, at the time there was only one Turkish artillery battery and a covering force of 20 infantrymen.

The next day the Australian No. 1 Squadron's patrols were in the air all day covering the assembly for the attack on Rafa.

At 11: 00 the position of the attacking force was the Canterbury and Auckland Mounted Rifles Regiments, two squadrons of 1st Light Horse Regiment, one squadron of 2nd light Horse Regiment, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, 10th Light Horse Regiment ( 3rd Light Horse Brigade ), 1st ( Australian ) Battalion, Imperial Camel Corps Brigade, Warwickshire Yeomanry and Gloucestershire Hussars with the Inverness Battery covering the New Zealanders, the Leicester and Somerset Batteries the Australians, the Hong Kong Battery covering the Battalion of Camel Corps Brigade while the HAC battery shelled " C " group of redoubts from a distance of.

Geographically, the country of Australia is considered a continental landmass rather than an island, covering the largest landmass of the Australian continent.

The Australian 3rd Brigade was selected as the covering force.

Following the covering force, the Australian 2nd Brigade would land and move to the north, climbing to the summit of the main range at Hill 971 and protecting the left flank of the landing.

The former Australian batsman Jack Fingleton, covering the tour as a journalist, described it as Hutton's worst effort in a Test.

Aintree-Eglinton Reserve, a grassed area covering, contains a cricket pitch, several practice runs and night lights for Australian rules football, which are utilised by local amateur and junior clubs.

His private company, Australian Capital Equity ( ACE ), is the holding company for Stokes ' interests in a diverse range of Australian and international businesses and ventures covering property, construction, mining and petroleum exploration.

The manuscript collection contains about 26 million separate items, covering in excess of 10, 492 meters of shelf space ( ACA Australian Archival Statistics, 1998 ).