Budgerigar: How a Brave, Chatty and Colourful Little Aussie Bird Stole the World’s Heart

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Budgerigar: How a Brave, Chatty and Colourful Little Aussie Bird Stole the World’s Heart Author: Format: Paperback / softback First Published: Published By: Allen & Unwin
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Pages: 360 Language: English ISBN: 9781760875480 Categories: , ,

Budgies, budgies, budgies. Beautiful and cheeky, delightful and enchanting, wild or tamed, budgerigars are Australia’s gift to the bird world. They know how to count, can grasp simple grammar, and have incredible memory. They’re masters of mimicry. They dance and they yawn. They’ve been coveted by royals, been companions to the great and famous as well as to grannies in suburban kitchens around the world. They’ve been painted by masters, rendered in the finest porcelain, been bred artificially in test tubes, and depicted on postage stamps of more than 30 nations. Their image has been used to sell everything from whisky to laundry detergent. Surprising, charming, and occasionally alarming, Budgerigar is the book that at last opens the cage door on the incredible story of the little bird that grew.

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Sarah Harris, a 30-year veteran Australian journalist, is a former London correspondent and crime reporter for News Ltd newspapers. In more recent years she's worked as a feature writer and columnist for Fairfax and freelanced widely. Don Baker is a retired journalist who was formerly editor of The West Australian, editor The Western Mail (Perth), deputy editor The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), night editor and chief of staff The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne).