Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Birds of Australia

You can find many varieties of birds are very beautiful, attractive and humming all the rainforests. Australia has nearly800 bird species and size of these tiny birds from the field Weebill the emu is the largest flying bird.

Many species of birds are very attractive, with beautiful feathers and soft. In essence, the categories are divided into six major Australian birds, and are
• Old endemics: these birds are not sparrowsVogel, who holds Gondwana origin, such as emus, parrots, and cassowaries, which are enormous.
• corvids radiation: sermon birds peculiar to this continent, and the family corvids, such as wrens, magpies, robins and Pardalote.
• Eurasian colonists: these birds from Eurasia are some examples plovers, swallows, sunbirds, and some birds of prey
• Recent works: The birds that are mentioned recently as Blackbird, Common Starling, Common Myna andHouse and field sparrow.
• shorebirds migratory bird family Scolopacidae and Charadriidae visiting Australia during the non-breeding season
• birds, birds that breed on the islands or territory, as the group of petrels, albatrosses, cormorants and sulids.

Most of the birds on this continent seems to be familiar to tourists that come from the northern hemisphere, this is because some birds, like wrens that Jenny is in Australia look the sameand even the northern hemisphere wrens wrens Australian acts in the same way as the northern hemisphere wrens. Another example is the Australian hemisphere robins robins are very similar to the north, who are in it is not because the genetic relationship but because of convergent evolution because it is.

Here are a few birds occur when the travel is Australia, because of this similarity, the species of the northern hemisphere convergedEvolution: honeyeater bird like sunbirds, babblers Australasian similarities between the scimitar babbler have, like birds sittellas nuthatches, robins seem to spot the similarities of the chokes, and so on.

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