Ebook: John Gould’s Extinct and Endangered Birds of Australia
Author: John Gould Sue Taylor
- Tags: Rare birds -- Australia. Extinct birds -- Australia. Gould John -- 1804-1881. NATURE -- Animals -- Birds. NATURE -- Birdwatching Guides. SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Ornithology. Extinct birds. Rare birds. Australia.
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: National Library of Australia
- City: Australia., Canberra
- Language: English
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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 Read more...
Abstract: 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