Some years ago I had a personal guided tour of London Zoo (under
threat of closure at the time - did it survive?). My guide said the
next exhibit would make me home sick as it was a "Pennant's Parrikeet"
(or something similar). In those days I was not a keen birder so was
not surprised that I had never heard of this wonderous beast - imagine
my surprise that it was a Crimson Rosella. I have since seen one or
two books give it as an alternative name, but the Poms were clearly a
bit anachronistic on that one as well.
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Subject: Re: anachronistic parrot
Author: Eric Hocking <> at pau-smtp
Date: 12/3/98 8:29
Just about to finish a biography of John Gould and it gives him credit for
introducing the budgerigar as a pet in London probably around 1841.
Russell Woodford wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, John Penhallurick wrote:
> > An Eastern Rosella made another amazing appearance in a trashy film called
> > "The Golden Child" where it appeared to be a manifestation of some sort of
> > supernatural spirit!
> This was shown a couple of weeks ago in Melbourne - and they gave the
> rosella a weird call - can anyone remember what it was? Something
> thrush-like, from memory.
>
> Russell Woodford
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