Parrots by Edward J. Boosey

Parrots

Cockatoos & Macaws

by Edward J. Boosey

photographs by Alec Brooksbank

Rockliff Publishing Corporation, 1956, [First Edition], colour and black and white photographic plates, colour photographic frontispiece, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ details stamp on front endpaper, age toned pages, foxing to endpapers, clipped dustjacket in good condition with some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing, bumping, chipping, creasing and discolouration, tears to spine and back (see photographs)

“Just as individual horticulturalists usually have some special branch of gardening that interests them most, so does each aviculturist tend to specialise in a particular family or genus of birds, that, for one reason or another, he finds particularly fascinating.  In Mr. Boosey’s case it was, and to a large extent still is, the various members of the vast family comprised under the general heading of psittacine, or parrots and parrot-like birds that chiefly attract him, and that caused him, as a child, to express to his astonished nurse a firm conviction that he would one day “breed a parrot”!  While still a schoolboy he bred budgerigars and Redrump Parrakeets, but it was not until some twenty years later that he finally achieved his parrot ambition, breeding both the African Grey and the Blue-fronted Amazon, and being awarded in each case the Avicultural Society’s medal for a First Breeding in captivity of these two species...”