Where Song Began by Tim Low

Author:Tim Low
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781743484265
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Published: 2014-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

Grass-assisted Invasion

One article by Ernst Mayr, ‘Timor and the Colonisation of Australia by Birds’ (1944), stands up better than his other Australian work because it mentions some birds that really did enter from Asia:

It is a striking fact that most of the recent arrivals in Australia from Timor are grassland birds. This would seem to indicate that grasslands were the prevailing type of habitat on each side of Timor Strait during the period(s) of the greatest proximity of Timor and Australia, and this in turn would lead to the conclusion that the climate at that time must have been as dry or even more arid than it is to-day.9

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