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Of parrots and people : the sometimes funny, always fascinating, and often catastrophic collision of two intelligent species
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Title
Of parrots and people : the sometimes funny, always fascinating, and often catastrophic collision of two intelligent species / Mira Tweti.
ISBN
9780670019694
0670019690
Published
New York : Viking, 2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Notes
Includes index.
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Contents
Bird brains
Parrots and parronts
No joy: the crisis of unwanted birds
Naturalized psittacines: America's avian immigrants
From the wild life to captive breeders: the legal parrot trade in the United States
Death row and a death row reprieve: the notorious Scudder's Parrot Depot and the stellar Cockatoo Rescue
A bird in a cage is worth two in the bush: the illegal trapping and wild harvesting of parrots around the globe
Smuggling
The invisible man
A Brazilian journey with global parrot conservationist Charles Munn
The journey continues to the rarest macaws in the world, Lear's and Spix's
Repercussions, ramifications, and solutions.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Parrots - Popular Works.
Bonding, Human-Pet - Popular Works.
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