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Night parrot : Australia's most elusive bird / Penny Olsen ; [guest essayists, Peter Curry, Stephen Garnett, Bruce Greatwich, Leo Joseph ... Glenn Holmes, Emma Lindsay and Robert Nugent].
Van Pelt Library QL696.P7 O474 2018
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olsen, Penny, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pezoporus occidentalis.
- Parrots--Australia.
- Parrots.
- Nocturnal birds--Australia.
- Nocturnal birds.
- Endemic birds--Australia.
- Endemic birds.
- Rare birds--Australia.
- Rare birds.
- Ornithology--Australia--History.
- Ornithology.
- Scientific expeditions--Australia--History.
- Scientific expeditions.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 360 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Clayton South, VIC : CSIRO Publishing, [2018]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: A tangled nest of Night Parrot names
- Getting to know the family: the molecular story / Leo Joseph
- Endnotes for introductory section
- South Australia
- The very first `beautiful ground parrakeet': Charles Sturt, John McDouall Stuart and J. Harris Browne
- Myrrlumbing: Frederick Andrews
- Hunters of the long-lost Night Parrot: Samuel Albert White and Ethel Rosina White
- Sderolaena not spinifex: Shane Parker
- Endnotes for South Australia section
- Western Australia
- Spinifex Parrot: Robert Austin, Albert Calvert and George Keartland
- Mournful whistle: Martin Bourgoin
- A concerted effort: the CALM campaign
- The vanishing habitat of the Night Parrot in the Gascoyne and Murchison regions of Western Australia: lessons from historical records, land use and landscape processes / Peter Curry
- Endnotes for Western Australia section
- Victoria
- Mallee Bird: Charles McLennan
- Endnotes for Victoria section
- New South Wales
- Have you ever seen a Night Parrot? W. Kelly
- Endnotes for New South Wales section
- Northern Territory
- Fly-by-night: George Keartland, Lawson Whitlock and Co.
- A frame-up: Sidney William Jackson
- Endnotes for Northern Territory section
- Queensland
- Bodies beside the road and a bird in the hand: Boles, Cupitt, Young and Co.
- `They say if enough are found': Steve Murphy and John Young
- Not the final chapter
- Endnotes for Queensland section.
- Notes:
- Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781486302987
- 148630298X
- 9781486302994
- 1486302998
- 9781486303007
- 1486303005
- OCLC:
- 1007292488
- Publisher Number:
- 99992878811
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