Plains-wanderer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Plains-wanderer , Pedionomus torquatus , or Plains Wanderer , is a unique bird and is put in a family of its own. It is endemic to Australia. This is a quail-like ground bird, measuring ...
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PLAINS-WANDERER Pedionomidae ... The Plains-Wanderer is a small, unique bird of the open plains of eastern Australia. It is the sole representative of a family whose affinities have been uncertain. Like phalaropes, the female (below right) is larger and more brightly colored than the male (left).
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May 11, 2006 ... The Plains-wanderer, Pedionomus torquatus, or Plains Wanderer, is a unique bird and is put in a family of its own. ...
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1960, 83 min., 35mm, color. Directed by Buichi Saito. With Akira Kobayashi, Ruriko Asaoka, Jo Shishido.In the nine-part Wanderer series (1959-1962), ...
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Birds Australia / RAOU : Conservation through knowledge ... The Plains-wanderer is of great scientific interest being the sole member of a genus and family of birds found only in eastern Australia. However, the species has declined greatly since European settlement.
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Recycling genre conventions already familiar to most American audiences, but with a Japanese twist, "Eastern Westerns" like Plains Wanderer were a popular subgenre within Nikkatsu Action, most of them featuring a good-hearted hero battling injustice against the majestic outdoor backdrop of mountainous, remote Hokkaido.
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The female Plains-wanderer is larger and brighter than the male and is polyandrous - that is, she mates with more than one male in a breeding season. The female participates in nest-building and incubating the eggs, but then leaves the duties of caring for the young to the male.
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www.anwc.csiro.au/ANWCbirds/birdpages/plains_wanderer.h...
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WINGS Birding Tours to Australia: Tasmania, Victoria and the Plains-wanderer – Itinerary. WINGS is a worldwide birding tour company based in Tucson, Arizona. ... The Plains-wanderer is a cryptic, buttonquail-like bird that can be very hard to spot, but by driving at night across the native short-grass pasturelands in this...
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Birders visiting Australia are hoping to get a glimpse of the Plains Wanderer, an enigmatic species that has puzzled taxonomists for a long time. Whether it is an odd wader-like buttonquail, or an unusual quail-like wader, is still largely unclear.
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