Sulphur-crested Cockatoo at the court of Elizabeth I

[(John Leonard)]

A survey of Tudor portarits including parrots would be needed to answer this
one definitely, but I don't see why a genuine Sulphur-crested couldn't have
been taken as a chick in northern Australia by Indonesian traders and
brought back to Java, say, and then been sold to European traders, and
thence to Europe and the court of Glenda Jackson. They are very long-lived,
after all.




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John Leonard (Dr),
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'I thought of New York as a Hemlock forest that had
been logged too heavily....'
                                        Murray Gell-Mann


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