Australian Cockatoos
Author: Stan Sindel
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780958772716
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Australian White Cockatoos
Author: Chris Hunt
Publisher: Guide to
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780957702417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAustralia's white cockatoos have fascinated the world over for over 200 years, and their popularity is evidenced by the frequency with which you encounter them in Australia's backyards as pets. However, it has often been said that familiarity breeds contempt. It is unfortunate that their proper care, both as pets and in aviculture, has long been neglected. If aviculturists truly wish to argue that they keep birds because they love them, this situation must be remedied.
The Cockatoos
Author: Edward John Mulawka
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-04-28
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1476614717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reference book on the cockatoo family provides a comprehensive physical description of the various species of this exotic parrot, the habitat they favor, and their distribution and behaviors both in the wild and in captivity. Their reproductive history is examined, as is the possibility of breeding sufficient numbers in captivity to develop sustainable populations for re-introduction to their original habitat should they become extinct in the wild. The book explores the historical encounters of the various species with Europeans two centuries ago. That early history provides considerable insight to the cockatoo's popularity and to efforts to breed them in captivity. Many cockatoo species face a perilous future. As their native forests are logged, the cockatoos lose not only suitable nesting and roosting sites, but native foods. Additionally, despite conservation laws governing the capture of wild cockatoos, their desirability as an avian pet has spawned a worldwide illicit trade critically endangering some species to the point that they face extinction in the wild.
Cockatoos
Author: Matt Cameron
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0643092323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCockatoos are large, intelligent and attractive birds. Of the twenty-one recognized species, fourteen occur in Australia, with three of these also found in New Guinea. Seven species are distributed across the islands of south-east Asia. While many species are common or abundant, an increasing number face extinction due to habitat loss, the illegal bird trade and global warming.
A Guide to Black Cockatoos
Author: Neville Connors
Publisher: Abk/Reptile Publications
Published: 19??
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780975081730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors in this book deal with the Black cockatoo species and subspecies of the genus Calptorhynchus, the Palm Cockatoo and the Gang Gang Cockatoo. This book seeks to cater for the pet bird owner and the novice and experienced aviculturist.
Cockatoos
Author: Matt Cameron
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2007-12-20
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0643098763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCockatoos are large, intelligent and attractive birds. Of the 21 recognised species, 14 occur in Australia, with three of these also found in New Guinea. Seven species are distributed across the islands of south-east Asia. While many species are common or abundant, an increasing number face extinction due to habitat loss, the illegal bird trade and global warming. Extensively illustrated, Cockatoos looks at the ecology and conservation of these iconic birds, including their evolution, distribution, movements, feeding and reproduction. It examines the pest status of cockatoos, the impact of the illegal bird trade and the role played by aviculturists in cockatoo conservation programs.
Nestling Cockatoos
Author: Angela Robertson-Buchanan
Publisher:
Published: 2021-07-07
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781742036076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHave you ever met a sulphur-crested cockatoo? They are as intelligent as a toddler and can live up to 90 years of age. Squeak and Squawk were rescued when their tree-hollow home was cut down. They were only two weeks old. You will fall in love with these clever cockies.
Carpentaria
Author: Alexis Wright
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2024-02-06
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0811238040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlexis Wright’s award-winning classic Carpentaria: “a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel—stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humor, sweetened by spiraling lyricism” (The Australian) Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of northwestern Queensland, Australia. Its portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centers on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob, on the one hand, and with the white officials of Uptown and the nearby rapacious, ecologically disastrous Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wright’s masterful novel teems with extraordinary characters—the outcast savior Elias Smith, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist Will Phantom, and above all, the rulers of the family, the queen of the garbage dump and the fish-embalming king of time: Angel Day and Normal Phantom—who stand like giants in a storm-swept world. Wright’s storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce. She has a narrative gift for remaking reality itself, altering along her way, as if casually, the perception of what a novel can do with the inside of the reader's mind. Carpentaria is “an epic, exhilarating, unsettling novel” (Wall Street Journal) that is not to be missed.
The Cockatoos
Author: Patrick White
Publisher: Text Publishing
Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1925774414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn essential story collection from one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century, now a part of the Text Classics series
Black Cockatoo
Author: Carl Merrison
Publisher:
Published: 2018-08
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9781925360707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlack Cockatoo is a vignette that follows Mia, a young Aboriginal girl as she explores the fragile connections of family and culture. Mia is a 13-year-old girl from a remote community in the Kimberley. She is saddened by the loss of her brother as he distances himself from the family. She feels powerless to change the things she sees around her, until one day she rescues her totem animal, the dirran black cockatoo, and soon discovers her own inner strength. A wonderful small tale on the power of standing up for yourself, culture and ever-present family ties.
