Further to my last post – Penny Olsen’s book on the Paradise Parrot is titled
Glimpses of Paradise, published by National Library of Australia, RRP $35 (I
have no commercial interest in the book but reviewed it recently for The
Courier-Mail – highly recommended.)
From: Andrew Stafford
Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2007 8:20 PM
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Subject: Egg Collectors (and place names)
➢ I was interested to read Michael Morcombe’s defence of egg collecting. The
decline in the ability of most observers to locate nests is a good point and
there is no doubt that serious collectors can be hoarding a significant
scientific archive. Witness the sad story of Mervyn Goddard, who in 1983
systematically smashed – with his bare hands – almost his entire collection
during a crackdown by authorities, despite the offer of an amnesty. This
consisted of 3000 eggs from nearly 600 species! (This story is told in Wingspan
editor Penny Olsen’s remarkable book on the history and extinction of the
Paradise Parrot, and is highly recommended reading.)
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