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Parrots of the World

Parrots of the World

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Parrots of the World by Joseph M Forshaw  & William T Cooper Large HC Book 1981
Revised Second Edition

Few groups of birds are as well known as the Order Psittaciformes - the parrots. Parrots have attracted the attention of naturalists from the earliest times and their popularity as pets is well documented in history. It was probably Alexander the Great who introduced to Europe tame parrots from the Far East, and Aristotle almost certainly based his descriptions of parrots on birds brought back by Alexander's triumphant armies. The voyages of discovery to Asia and the Americas during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries resulted in new parrot species being brought back to Europe and trading live birds soon commenced. Nowadays, the popularity of parrots is worldwide and the international trade in live birds has reached alarming proportions.

Parrots of the World has been conceived to meet the needs of ornithologists, institutions, aviculturists, and naturalists generally. Its basically scientific appeal, however, will not prevent it from becoming the bible of parrot-fanciers throughout the world. Every species and subspecies, including those now extinct, is described. Standard taxonomic measurements taken from museum specimens are listed as part of these descriptions. Information on distribution, status, habitats, general habits, movements, feeding, call-notes and nesting habits, including measurements of eggs, are given. There is a distribution map for each species.

All of the approximately 340 species and some of the more divergent subspecies - a total of almost 500 birds - are magnificently illustrated in colour by William Cooper whose recent work has ranked him among the world's leading bird-painters. Each illustration is of a particular specimen and the registration numbers for specimens are included in the captions to the plates. Particular attention has been paid to backgrounds so that they are indicative of typic habitats in which the depicted species occurs.
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