The Purple-Bellied Parrot: Crumblets
Links:
The Purple-Bellied Parrot: cornell.edu arkive.org
House Sparrows: rspb.org
House Martins: bto.org; rspb.org
The Wandering Albatross: arkive.org
Sundry Albatrosses: wwf.org; Frans Lanting
Ocean Turtles: wwf.org
Sundry Parrots: World Parrot Trust
William's best mate: Robert Beech
Best of British with that email address ...
Don't hold your breath for a reply!
Mrs Lush
All the Birds of the Air, Francesca Greenoak
Bird folklore. Want to know what a ‘Coddy Moddy’ is?
Bestiary (MS Bodley 764), Richard Barber
Real and made-up beasts of yore
Bird Sense, Tim Birkhead
Birds are brainier than you think
Birds and Weather, Stephen Moss
‘If ducks do slide at Hallowtide ...
At Chistmas they will swim’
Birds of Europe, Lars Jonsson
There are some good bird i.d. guides out there. This is one of them
The Call of the Wild, Jack London
It was a dog’s life when men were men. Some tough bits
Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, James MacKillop
Not only Badhb. Banshee, Birog and buggane too
Collins Bird Guide, Svensson; Mullarney; Zetterstrom; Grant
There are some good bird i.d. guides out there. This is another one
The Dog Crusoe, R. M. Ballantyne
WF remembers reading this as a boy and loving it. Probably un-pc now
My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
Eccentrics at large on Corfu with sundry critters
Parrots of the Wild, Catherine Toft and Timothy Wright
Great info, excellent pics, bit boffiny
Seabirds, Peter Harrison
Read this and you’ll soon be able to tell your boobies apart
True Grit, Charles Portis
A great yarn, not for horses of a nervous disposition
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
‘Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!’
More soon!
The Winter of Our Discontent, by John Steinbeck
William Fagus was reading:
Fools Crow, by James Welch
Restless, by William Boyd
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk
Get Shorty, by Elmore Leonard
Knowledge of Angels, by Jill Paton Walsh
Started Early, Took My Dog, by Kate Atkinson
A Possible Life, by Sebastian Faulks
The Underpainter, by Jane Urquhart
The Last Grain Race, by Eric Newby
What Was Lost, by Catherine O'Flynn
Close Range, by Annie Proulx
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
Little Big Man, by Thomas Berger
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler
What I Was, by Meg Rosoff
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson