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This is a bit of a rabbit hole, however, and you may find yourself, as I did, spending the day watching videos of Superb Lyrebirds singing and Kea Parrots making snowballs. This way, you can easily look up images and videos of the many fantastic birds described.
We can say with much certainty that the majority of people admire and are fascinated with the resplendent colors of macaws, parrots, toucans and hummingbirds. In the Far East they keep birds of prey which they use to capture other animals such as foxes and rabbits. The quail, guans, ducks and pheasant are hunted for their meat.
It is a book with a careful infrastructure, however (even though it doesn’t have an index), with references to one section from another, enabling the curious reader to go down structured rabbit holes, pursuing information on nesting or skeletal systems or feather structure throughout the book. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.
The big bonus was that there were several flocks of Musk Parrots , which was a first for my year list. There are 104 of these artistic bollards and each group has a rabbit painted on it somewhere for children to find! You can see one of the rabbits on the second bollard from the right. Bird collector bollard.
“The slender-billed cockatoo ( long – billed corella ) is a very affectionate, easy-going pet bird and one of the best talking parrots” ( source ). Is it offensive to say that Australian Zebra Finches breed like rabbits? Talk about schizophrenia. I guess we have to be thankful they do not also wear leggings.
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