Territoriality and density of an Australian migrant, the Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher, in the New Guinean non-breeding grounds

Legge, Sarah; Murphy, Stephen; Igag, P.; Mack, Andreas

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Territoriality and density of an Australian migrant, the Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher, in the New Guinean non-breeding grounds

Date

2004

Authors

Legge, Sarah

Murphy, Stephen

Igag, P.

Mack, Andreas

Publisher

Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

Abstract

We report on the non-breeding dispersion and density of Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfishers (Tanysiptera syliva sylvia), an Australo-Papuan intratropical migrant. The study was carried out at the base of the Hunstein Range, in the Sepik basin of Papua New