GLIMPSES OF PARADISE - THE QUEST FOR THE BEAUTIFUL PARAKEET by Penny Olson
Glimpses of Paradise: The Quest for the Beautiful Parrakeet follows the story of the Paradise Parrot, beginning with its first European sighting by naturalist John Gilbert in 1844, on the Condamine River in Queensland. Gilbert wrote to his employer John Gould, in London, describing his find as 'without exception the most beautiful of the whole tribe I have ever seen in Australia'. Gould named it the Beautiful Parrakeet.
But squatters had already begun to claim the parrot's country- the rich downs of southeast Queensland. Overgrazing and burning changed the grass species and waterways forever and, by the 1890s, the parrakeet had disappeared from the record. Ornithologist and journalist Alec Chisholm believed that the bird still survived. In 1918, he launched a search for the parrot through regional newspapers. In 1922, he introduced the name used by English aviculturists, Paradise Parrot, to Australia. That same year, the first and last photographs of the parrot were taken, and the last confirmed observation was in 1928-yet claims of sightings continue.
2007 Softcover
ISBN: 978-0-642-27652-0
Condition: As New
BD (Birds)
Glimpses of Paradise: The Quest for the Beautiful Parrakeet follows the story of the Paradise Parrot, beginning with its first European sighting by naturalist John Gilbert in 1844, on the Condamine River in Queensland. Gilbert wrote to his employer John Gould, in London, describing his find as 'without exception the most beautiful of the whole tribe I have ever seen in Australia'. Gould named it the Beautiful Parrakeet.
But squatters had already begun to claim the parrot's country- the rich downs of southeast Queensland. Overgrazing and burning changed the grass species and waterways forever and, by the 1890s, the parrakeet had disappeared from the record. Ornithologist and journalist Alec Chisholm believed that the bird still survived. In 1918, he launched a search for the parrot through regional newspapers. In 1922, he introduced the name used by English aviculturists, Paradise Parrot, to Australia. That same year, the first and last photographs of the parrot were taken, and the last confirmed observation was in 1928-yet claims of sightings continue.
2007 Softcover
ISBN: 978-0-642-27652-0
Condition: As New
BD (Birds)
Glimpses of Paradise: The Quest for the Beautiful Parrakeet follows the story of the Paradise Parrot, beginning with its first European sighting by naturalist John Gilbert in 1844, on the Condamine River in Queensland. Gilbert wrote to his employer John Gould, in London, describing his find as 'without exception the most beautiful of the whole tribe I have ever seen in Australia'. Gould named it the Beautiful Parrakeet.
But squatters had already begun to claim the parrot's country- the rich downs of southeast Queensland. Overgrazing and burning changed the grass species and waterways forever and, by the 1890s, the parrakeet had disappeared from the record. Ornithologist and journalist Alec Chisholm believed that the bird still survived. In 1918, he launched a search for the parrot through regional newspapers. In 1922, he introduced the name used by English aviculturists, Paradise Parrot, to Australia. That same year, the first and last photographs of the parrot were taken, and the last confirmed observation was in 1928-yet claims of sightings continue.
2007 Softcover
ISBN: 978-0-642-27652-0
Condition: As New
BD (Birds)
2007 Softcover
ISBN - 978-06422-765-2-0
Condition - As New
BD