John Gould's extinct and endangered birds of Australia:
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1. Verfasser: Taylor, Sue (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Canberra National Library of Australia ©2012
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Beschreibung:In 1838, John Gould, the 'father of Australian ornithology' visited Australia with the intention of gathering material for his great work on Australian birds. In the resulting publication, The Birds of Australia: In Seven Volumes (1848), and the accompanying Supplement (1869), Gould named, for the first time, no fewer than 32 Australian bird species. Gould's words about the Norfolk Island Kaka were prophetic-the last bird of its kind died in a cage in London in 1851. Since then, a number of other species illustrated in The Birds of Australia have become extinct and others are now facing extinc
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