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  • “Several mammal species, including bilby (Macrotis lagotis VU), northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus), pale field-rat (Rattus tunneyi), golden-backed tree-rat, and golden bandicoot have declined, especially in the lower rainfall lowland portions of this ecoregion.”

    Kimberly tropical savanna

  • “None of these species now occurs in the southwest Kimberley, although the golden-backed tree-rat and golden bandicoot are still present in the rugged north Kimberley.”

    Kimberly tropical savanna

  • “Another spotted black-and-white bird which now begins nesting operations is the yellow-fronted pied woodpecker (_Liopicus mahrattensis_) -- a species only a little less common than the beautiful golden-backed woodpecker.”

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India

  • “The iora, the coppersmith, the barbet, the golden-backed woodpecker, and the white-breasted kingfisher continue to call merrily.”

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India

  • “The green barbet (_Thereoceryx zeylonicus_) and the golden-backed woodpecker (_Brachypternus aurantius_) are now busy excavating their nests, which are so similar to those of their respective cousins -- the coppersmith and the pied woodpecker -- as to require no description.”

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India

  • “The sunbirds, the fantail flycatchers, the orioles, the golden-backed woodpeckers, the white-breasted kingfishers and the black partridges call as lustily as ever, and the bulbuls continue to twitter to one another "stick to it!”

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India

  • “Pied and golden-backed woodpeckers, companies of nuthatches, and, here and there, a wryneck move about on the trunks and branches, looking into every cranny for insects.”

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India

  • “With the exception of the paroquets, spotted owlets, nuthatches, black vultures and pied kingfishers, which have completed nesting operations for the year, and the golden-backed woodpeckers and the cliff-swallows, which have reared up their first broods, the great majority of the birds mentioned as having nests or young in March or”

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India

  • “The golden-backed woodpecker, the green bee-eater, the "blue jay" or roller, the paddy bird, the Indian and the magpie-robin, most familiar birds of the plains, are no longer seen.”

    Birds of the Indian Hills

  • “The only woodpecker that I have noticed in the vicinity of Coonoor is Tickell's golden-backed woodpecker (_Chrysocolaptes gutticristatus_).”

    Birds of the Indian Hills

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