Paradise Lost: Encounters with Australia’s Extinct Parrot
The paradise parrot is mainland Australia’s only bird to have become extinct since white settlement. First named by British ornithologists in 1844, the bird has not been seen since 1927, its population declining rapidly due to changes in land-use. This creative-critical article investigates the hi...
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University of Leicester
2022-06-01
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Online Access: | https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/3831 |