Of parrots and people : the sometimes funny, always fascinating, and often catastrophic collision of two intelligent species

Tweti, Mira (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780670019694
Physical Description: xv, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
print
Publisher: New York : Viking, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Bird brains -- Parrots and parronts -- No joy: The crisis of unwanted birds -- Naturalized psittacines: America's avian immigrants -- From the wild life to captive breeders: The legal parrot trade in the United States -- Death row and a death row reprieve: The notorious Scudder's Parrot Depot and the stellar Cockatoo Rescue -- A bird in a cage is worth two in the bush: The illegal trapping and wild harvesting of parrots around the globe -- Smuggling -- The invisible man -- A Brazilian journey with global parrot conservationist Charles Munn -- The journey continues to the rarest macaws in the world, Lear's and Spix's -- Repercussions, ramifications, and solutions.