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Review: Curlews on Vulture Street: cities, birds, people & me – Darryl
Jones (NewSouth)
For all the vastness of our Outback and bush, most Australians live in urban
areas. In cities, we live within an orderly landscape, moulded and manufactured
by us to suit our needs. But other species also live in this modified
environment.
In many cases, this cohabitation is peaceful, benign or even mutually
beneficial. Part of Darryl Jones’
Curlews on Vulture Street: cities, birds,
people & me documents the surprising variety of bird life in our cities and
towns. Many of these birds are native species, finding a way to live – and
sometimes to flourish – in a human-dominated system.
Lorikeets, honeyeaters, cockatoos, crows, currawongs, silver gulls, peregrine
falcons, and even (in some Australian cities) curlews and brush-turkeys have
cracked the code, adapting to the resources we inadvertently provide, or
intentionally create, for them – such as native plants in our gardens. They
survive or thrive notwithstanding the cars, cats, concrete, dogs, noise and
pollution."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
