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Budgerigar : how a brave, chatty and colourful little Aussie bird stole the world's heart /
They sing and dance, and yawn as contagiously as humans. They are masters of mimicry. They grasp simple grammar, can count to six and have memories that belie their size. They've been coveted by royals and been companions to the great and famous as well as grannies in suburban kitchens around t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Crows Nest, NSW :
Allen & Unwin,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A companion to the great
- Unbeknown to early tourists
- John Roach, the scoundrel bird-stuffer
- The goulded cage
- Birds in hand
- Further adventures of a bird-stuffer
- Budgerigar dreaming
- How ornithologists tell it
- Ship ahoy!
- Feathers fly
- Mon petit parakeet
- Of peas and Japanese
- Sick as a parrot
- By royal command
- The sealed section
- When duty calls
- The cult of the budgie
- Budgezilla
- It's showtime!
- Smuggled budgies and dark deeds
- Doing bird and other therapeutic uses
- Still call Australia home
- Sooths and sayers
- Famous fanciers
- Spinning around
- Wild thing.