The Plains Wanderer, Pedionomus torquatus, is a unique member of the gamebird order Galliformes, and this bird is put in a family of its own.
This is a quail-like ground bird, measuring 15-19 cm. The adult male is light brown above, with fawn-white underparts with black crescents. The adult female has a distinctive white-spotted black collar. It is endemic to Australia.
This bird is officially endangered. Population decline has been caused by the cultivation of native grasslands.
The relationships with other groups are shown below:
"Servility and Comamnd": authorship in 'Melmoth the Wanderer.'
Wanderer W25K Roadster; Wandering in from the cold.
State of the wireless Internet study underlines need for m-services initiative; ArgoGroup Wireless Wanderer technology finds only 11 per cent of WAP sites are fully usable, will monitor the compliance to M-services to facilitate the initiative.
Redreaming the plain was launched on December 3, 2002, overlooking a remnant grassland on the St Albans campus of Victoria University, by Don Henry, Director, Australian Conservation Foundation; Professor Jim Falk, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Victoria University; and Associate Professor Michael Buxton, from RMIT University's Environment and Planning Program, which hosts the e-journal.
Redreaming the Plain is a unique forum where those two dialogues can evolve together towards a richly informed, collaboratively developed and sustainable future for the basalt plain's community.
The extensive plains of wildflowers and herbs described by Norcock have been reduced to fragments of remnant vegetation isolated in an agricultural and urban matrix.
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