Paradise parrot
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The paradise parrot is an extinct species of colourful medium-sized parrot native to the grassy woodlands extending across the Queensland and New South Wales border area of eastern Australia. Once mod
Psephotus pulcherrimus
Extinct paradise parrot (male)
Illustration by Roland Green, published in Mathew's Birds of Australia, 1917
"Beautiful or Paradise Parrot", Lydon (ill.) Fawcett (engr.) in Green & Dutton, Parrots in Captivity, vol 2. 1884
John Gilbert (naturalist)
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John Gilbert was an English naturalist and explorer. Gilbert is often cited in the earliest descriptions of many Australian animals, many of which were unrecorded in European literature, and some of t
Paradise parrot
…the ground. The description of the species was first published by John Gould in 1845. Gould used the description supplied to him by the field worker John Gilbert, and was suspected to have copied the field notes of Gilbert from a letter that became lost. A letter from Gilbert (May 1844) describing this parrot…
A memorial to Gilbert on the wall of St James' Church, Sydney
Memorial to John Gilbert, Gilbert's Lookout, Taroom, 2014
Plaque on memorial to John Gilbert, Gilbert's Lookout, Taroom, 2014
Plaque about John Gilbert, Gilbert's Lookout, Taroom, 2014