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About this book
For well over a century, the Night Parrot lured its seekers into Australia's vast, arid outback. From the beginning it was a mysterious bird. Fewer than 30 specimens were collected before it all but disappeared, offering only fleeting glimpses and the occasional mummified body as proof of its continued existence. Protected by spinifex and darkness, the parrot attained almost mythical status: a challenge to birdwatchers and an inspiration to poets, novelists and artists.
Night Parrot documents the competitiveness and secrecy, the triumphs and adventures of the history of the bird and its followers, culminating in the recent discovery of live birds at a few widely scattered locations. It describes what we are now unravelling about the mysteries of its biology and ecology and what is still left to learn. Complemented by guest essays, illustrations and photographs from a wide variety of sources, this book sheds light on Australia's most elusive bird.
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Index
Note: Bold page numbers refer to illustrations;
NP refers to Night Parrot.
Acacia
amulosa 134
aneura 237
cambagei 249
craspedocarpa 130
spp. 133, 136, 137, 245
Adamson, Prue 244
Adelaide Observer, Andrews’
advertisements 34, 35
Alice Springs, NT 70, 71, 75, 196–7, 215, 222
Alice Springs Telegraph Station 198, 198, 219–20
Alyawarra people 14
American Museum of Natural History 77
Analtjirbiri 14
Anangu Pitjantjara lands 13
Andrews, Frederick 1, 31–62, 112, 243, 302
advertises his services 34, 35
answerable to Kay at the Board of Governors 57
argument with Haacke 62
arrested for non-payment of a debt 36–7
arrives in Adelaide from Plymouth 34
background 32, 34, 63
based at Port Lincoln collecting for the museum 36–7
bird and mammal collecting for the museum 38
on bleeding of caged birds 50–1
buried at Willunga 65
collecting
at Cooper Creek 32, 33, 45
at Lake Alexandrina for the Paris Exposition 37, 38
at Moonerie 60
at Mount Compass/Square Waterhole 55, 57, 58, 60, 62
at Naracoorte, SA 56
at Overland Corner 56–7
at Port Augusta 52
on Eyre Peninsula 41
in Gawler Ranges 41–2, 53, 55, 57, 58, 60, 80
in Mount Gambier area 40
collects marine specimens
at Neptune and Sir Joseph Banks island groups 56
at Port Vincent with Haacke 61
collects NP specimens
from Gawler Ranges and Lake Eyre 1, 12, 32, 42, 43, 46–7, 77
from Yardea 42, 43, 60
death 34, 62–3
inquest into his ‘drowning’ 34, 63–5
describes song of Eastern Ground Parrot 58, 60
elected as Corresponding Member of the Royal Society 58
employed as full-time collector for the SA Museum 56
fails to collect NP after 1873 61
as field collector of animals...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the call of the Night Parrot
- A tangled nest of Night Parrot names
- Getting to know the family: the molecular story
- Endnotes for introductory section
- South Australia
- Western Australia
- Victoria
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- Index