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  Birds in Backyards - Swamp Harrier (Circus approximans) Fact sheet
Swamp Harriers are easily disturbed at the nest and will abandon their eggs and even downy young if approached by people.
The Swamp Harrier is widespread in Australasia and the South Pacific.
The nest of the Swamp Harrier is made of straw and grasses, hidden above the water in dense reeds in a swamp or in crops or long grasses near water.
www.birdsinbackyards.net /finder/display.cfm?id=229   (469 words)

  
  Northern Harrier: WhoZoo
The Northern Harrier is a slender bird with long wings, a long tail, yellow legs, an owl-like facial disk, a conspicuous white rump (that shows easily in flight), and yellow eyes.
The harrier would make a loud scream, kee-kee-kee: kek, kek, kek, when someone disturbs her or is near her territory.
The harrier's owl-like facial appearance is due to the presence of "filo feathers" that facilitate acute directional hearing.
www.whozoo.org /Intro2002/HuongPhan/HTP_NorthernHarrier.html   (0 words)

  
 Submission No:263
As described and depicted in the photographs the bird was a rather pale adult male harrier with pale grey dorsal tones and a contrasting upperwing pattern that included flish innerwing-coverts and prominent fl wing-tips; a markedly pale underbody with a contrasting flish ‘hood’; and a whitish underwing with fl wing-tips.
The key features mentioned in the description as identifying the bird as a Papuan Harrier are its generally pale appearance coupled with a contrasting flish hood and fl wing-tips (on both wing surfaces).
A ‘pied’ morph adult male Eastern Marsh (Papuan) Harrier Circus spilothorax spilothorax, a species recorded no closer to Australia than Borneo (Coates 1991), is also eliminated by the dark though clearly barred (not solid fl) underwing-tips similar in pattern to a male Swamp Harrier though giving a darker wing-tip impression.
users.bigpond.net.au /palliser/barc/sub263.html   (0 words)

  
 Birds of Perth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Swamp Harrier is a familiar sight around the large wetlands and swamps of Australia, where it feeds and breeds.
Swamp Harriers have long legs that they use to snatch prey, aquatic birds and their young, frogs, reptiles, insects and small mammals.
Swamp Harriers are often seen over Perth's wetlands.
www.birdsofperth.com /terrestrials/raptors/SWH.html   (0 words)

  
 ! Rainforest Birding Sites! Atherton Tableland Far North Queensland Australia
This is a temporary swamp (56.6 Ha) that fills during the Wet Season.
The Wongabel State Forest Walk is about 6km from Hasties Swamp and about 9km from Atherton found the left of the Kennedy Highway, travelling towards the Crater National Park.
Bromfield Swamp is famous for the fact that from July to January, the Sarus Cranes return each night in their hundreds to their nests.
www.rainforest-australia.com /bird_Sites.htm   (1040 words)

  
 Harrier (bird)
A Harrier (generic name Circus) is any of several species of diurnal birds of prey which fly low over meadows and marshes and hunt or harry small animals or birds (hence their common name).
The American Northern Harrier is also known as the Marsh Hawk.
It is usually classed as conspecific with the Hen Harrier, but is sometimes considered a separate species.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ci/Circinae.html   (0 words)

  
 Marsh Harrier
The Marsh Harriers are birds of prey of the harrier subfamily.
The Western Marsh Harrier is a typical harrier, with long wings held in a shallow V in its low flight.
The Eastern Marsh Harrier (C. spilonotus) breeds in the grasslands and wetlands of southern Siberia, northern Mongolia, north-east China, Manchuria and Japan, and migrates for the northern winter to South-east Asia, the Philippines and northern Borneo.
www.mlahanas.de /Cyprus/Fauna/MarshHarrier.html   (0 words)

  
 Kahu, the harrier hawk, Circus approximans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I have never come across one of their nests but the books tell me it is a low platform of bracken, manuka, raupo and flax stalks, topped with rushes, cabbage tree leaves and grass.
It is sited on the ground in swamps, in wet patches covered in rushes, in bracken fern, rank grass in young pine plantations or on road verges.
It is good to know that Kahu, the harrier, is one raptor who is holding his own.
www.nzbirds.com /birds/kahu.html   (0 words)

  
 Bishyp6rBirdRaptors
The 2 harriers soar mainly close to the ground.
You can see from the diagram that the white bellied sea-eagle, which can often be seen over land up to 200 Km or more from the coast, glides with its wings held higher than any other raptor.
Harriers, both swamp and spotted, also glide with wings upcurved but not quite so high, and the wedge-tailed Eagle and fl-breasted Buzzard wings are held in a lesser up-curve.
member.rivernet.com.au /balehirs/Bishyp6rBirdRaptors.html   (0 words)

  
 Marsh harrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They are medium-sized raptors and the largest and broadest-winged harriers.
The Western Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus), often simply called the Marsh Harrier, breeds widely across Europe and Asia.
It is commonly found in suitable habitat anywhere in Australasia, particularly in the higher rainfall areas to the east, south-east, and south-west, of Australia and throughout New Zealand, but also in the tropical north of Australia, and the island groups to the east of the Coral Sea, New Caledonia and Vanuatu.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marsh_Harrier   (0 words)

  
 Swamp Harrier Circus approximans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Swamp Harrier breeds in the south of Australia and in New Zealand while some birds migrate into northern Australia, New Guinea and nearby islands during the austral winter.
They nest on the ground in dense vegetation and feed on a wide variety of small mammals, birds, eggs, fish, reptiles and insects.
They fly low over swamps and farmland hunting with head down, upswept wings and rocking from side to side so that their white rump is usually visible.
www.arthurgrosset.com /ozbirds/swampharrier.html   (124 words)

  
 Birding in Echuca and District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Found on wetlands, this individual was photographed from the Reed Beds Swamp bird hide, off Picnic Point Road Mathoura (in the Barmah-Millewa Forest north of Echuca).
Swamp Harriers are sometimes seen gliding over local wetlands, e.g.
Other birds of prey often sighted in our area include Swamp Harrier (219), Brown Goshawk (221), Collared Sparrowhawk (222), Wedgetailed Eagle (224), Little Eagle (225), Hobby (235), Peregrine (237) and Nankeen Kestrel (240).
users.mcmedia.com.au /~stocky/birdgallery.html   (0 words)

  
 Tropical Birding Australia Tour
The Mareeba reserve itself is very nice, but we did not add that much to the trip, and the late opening-early closing times are not conducive to great birding without staying there.
This is an impressive little setup with a walkway going along way through Bullrush swamp to get to a seasonal lake.
The winds were so intense that the birds were all hunkered down, you could not pick up any movement even if they did pop up because of the movement of the trees.
www.tropicalbirding.com /tripReports/TR_Aus2004.html   (0 words)

  
 WA Gould League - Perth, WA - Raptor Rock
Then dare to enter the kingdom of the Swamp Harrier and see if you can spot him searching for a tasty treat on the lake.
Experienced and describe the flora and fauna of the Swamp Harrier habitat
Students and teachers are then welcome to stay for Morning Tea/Lunch/Afternoon Tea and then continue their own exploration of the swamp along the different walk-paths around the lake.
www.wagouldleague.com.au /raptorok.htm   (0 words)

  
 Hash House Harrirer Article Archive
If you have a "mainstream" article about hashing or hare and hounds that isn't here, please eMail it to
Thanks for the contributions by Baby Ruth, Beaver Breath, Birdbrian, Floater, Hairy Palms, Hazukashii, Ms Cheeky, Pinky, Pooper Scooper, Probing Sex Knave, Rumple Foreskin, Shit Happens, Slumbag, Square Root, Super Chicken, Spread 'em, Teats de Swamp, and the
New York City H3 Articles are © Copyright by each respective publication and are provided here as a bibliographic service to the Hash House Harrier community.
harrier.net /archive   (325 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The swamp has been artificially flooded and gum boots were required to wade through it.
Birds observed at the swamp included White-winged Triller (breeding), Straw-necked Ibis, Black-tailed native Hen, Swamp Harrier, Red-rumped Parrot, Brown Tree-creeper, Diamond Firetail, Reed Warbler, White-winged Chough, Rufous Whistler, Rufous Songlark (breeding), Little Grass Bird, Red-capped Robin, Restless Flycatcher and Jacky Winter.
The Swamp Harrier appeared overhead, causing a kurfuffle.
users.mcmedia.com.au /~stocky/2001.html   (0 words)

  
 Saturday, July 26
A yellow-throated miner flew into the same tree, and its bill appeared to be golden.
We had a quick look at a swamp harrier, and we saw a perched brown goshawk, but there still was no sign of a grey falcon.
At one point, a flock of crows and ravens became agitated, but we did not see a raptor.
www.amosbutleraudubon.org /WCY/16July26.htm   (0 words)

  
 Swamp Harrier - Circus approximans
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Pacific Marsh Harrier (Swamp Harrier) Circus approximans (treated as a race of Marsh Harrier C. aeroginosus by some authors) RANGE Australasia.
www.birdforum.net /bird_view.php?bid=8384   (0 words)

  
 Featherdale Wildlife Park - About Featherdale - Swamp Harrier
Featherdale Wildlife Park - About Featherdale - Swamp Harrier
Breeding: Breeds September to January and uses a platform nest of sticks, reeds and weeds and is hidden in the reeds where three to six eggs are laid.
Also called the Marsh Harrier and is often seen gliding over open marshes and swamps.
featherdale.com.au /featherdale/featherdale.ns4/Animals/Swamp+Harrier   (0 words)

  
 Australia and New Zealand 2001 - Emmalee Tarry
In addition to this individual who posed so beautifully in just the right light, we had two active nests and several birds perched and in flight.
Other raptors seen were: Brown Falcon, Austrialian Hobby, Whistling Kite, Nankeen Kestrel, Swamp Harrier
As the sun turned into a great red ball and began to sink behind the trees, the Egrets took to the trees to roost while the Night-Herons went to work.
www.neseabirds.com /Australia/ANZkakadupage2.htm   (0 words)

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