Joseph Forshaw
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Joseph Michael Forshaw is an Australia
n ornithologist, and the world's foremost expert on parrot
s. He was the former head of wildlife conservation for the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n ornithologist, and the world's foremost expert on parrot
Parrot
Parrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three families: the Psittacidae , the Cacatuidae and the Strigopidae...
s. He was the former head of wildlife conservation for the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service.