Wildlife of the Australian Snow-country: A Comprehensive Guide to Alpine Fauna
This lavishly illustrated guide, designed for both amateur naturalists and specialists, describes the mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs, fish, insects and other invertebrates found in those regions of Australia with regular extended winter snow cover. Discusses the distribution, breeding, food, and behaviour of these animals, and also gives a general description of the geology, climate and ecological features of the snow country environment, and the evolution of the snow-country fauna. Includes references, a glossary and an index.
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adults alpine areas alpine zone animals Baw Baw beetles beneath the snow birds Bogong High Plains Bogong Moths Breeding Broad-toothed Rat Brown Antechinus burrows Bush Rat colour common Common Eastern Froglet commonly Corroboree Frog Distribution dorsal Dusky Antechinus Eastern eggs are laid fauna feed feldmark female flies foraging Froglet grass grassland Grey ground habitats high altitudes high numbers Honeyeater insects invertebrates Kosciusko larvae litter lower altitudes mainland mountains mainland snow-country male mating migration Mount Mountain Galaxias Mountain Spotted Grasshopper nest overwinter plant Possum prey reptiles Richard's Pipits seen shrubs snow cover Snow Gums Snow Skink Snowy Mountains soil spiders springtails streams stripe subalpine subalpine and alpine subalpine woodland subalpine zone subnivean subnivean space summer Tasmania Tasmanian mountains temperature Thornbill treeline trees trout Tussock uncommon usually vegetation Victoria Victorian Alps wasps Water Skink wet heath White-browed Scrubwrens wings winter snow winter snowline Wombats