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Journal articles on the topic "Parrots in art"
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Martin, Steve. "The Art of Training Parrots." Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine 16, no. 1 (2007): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.jepm.2006.11.004.
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Kaplan, Gisela. "Animals and music: Between cultural definitions and sensory evidence." Sign Systems Studies 37, no. 3/4 (2009): 423–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/sss.2009.37.3-4.03.
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It was once thought that solely humans were capable of complex cognition but research has produced substantial evidence to the contrary. Art and music, however, are largely seen as unique to humans and the evidence seems to be overwhelming, or is it? Art indicates the creation of something novel, not naturally occurring in the environment. To prove its presence or absence in animals is difficult. Moreover, connections between music and language at a neuroscientific as well as a behavioural level are not fully explored to date. Even more problematic is the notion of an aesthetic sense. Music, so it is said, can be mimetic, whereas birdsong is not commonly thought of as being mimetic but as either imitation or mimicry and, in the latter case, as a ‘mindless’ act (parrots parroting). This paper will present a number of examples in which animals show signs of responsiveness to music and even engage in musical activity and this will be discussed from an ethological perspective. A growing body of research now reports that auditory memory and auditory mechanisms in animals are not as simplistic as once thought and evidence suggests, in some cases, the presence of musical abilities in animals.
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Wilke, Sabine. "Performing States-Of-In-Between: Dogs, Parrots, and Other Humans in Recent Austrian Performances." Literatur für Leser 40, no. 3 (2017): 295–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/lfl032017k_295.
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Every late spring since 1951, the Wiener Festwochen bring performers from around the world to Vienna for an opportunity to share recent developments in performance styles and present them to a Viennese public that seems to be increasingly open to experimentation. These festival weeks solidify a specific form of Viennese self-understanding and self-representation as a culture that is rooted in performance. This essay seeks to link two recent Austrian performances—one of them was part of the Wiener Festwochen in 2016, the other was staged in downtown Linz during the past few years—to this Austrian and specifically Viennese culture of performance by reading them as contemporary articulations of a tradition of radical performance art that can be traced back to the Viennese Actionism of the sixties and later feminist articulations in the seventies and eighties. They play on the dramatic effect of these actions, specifically their joy in cruelty, chaos, and orgiastic intoxication, by staging regressions and thus making visible what has been dammed up and repressed in contemporary society.1 Just as their historical models, these two performances merge the performing and the fine arts and they highlight provocative, controversial, and, at times, violent content. But they do it in an interspecies context that adds an entire layer of complexity to the project of societal and cultural critique.
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Pandey, Anjali. "WOOD CRAFT OF BIHAR AND UTTAR PRADESH –A SURVEY." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 4, no. 2 (2016): 239–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v4.i2.2016.2834.
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The tradition of wood carving is old. Wood craft is quite popular in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Craftsmen of these states are using their skill for making the designs in traditional and innovative way. A unique engraving creativity of ‘Nakkashi work’ appears with floral and figures etched out by the craftsmen. Lacquer work is obviously one of the major handicrafts of these regions. Various motifs of birds, peacock, fish, carved on the wood, appeals the viewers. The items made out of bamboo and wood are crafted in the shapes of birds, human figures and animals. Figures of Gods and Goddesses, animals and many mythological figures are crafted by the local craftsmen. The dolls, peacocks, parrots, elephants, horses, goats, bulls and cows are the repertoire of rural children. Uttar Pradesh is world known for its carved and brass inlayed or tarkashi wooden handicrafts. The craftsmen of Saharanpur are excelled in the art of inlayed wood work it is now widely used to decorate the centre-table, ash-trays, fruit-basket, service tray and other furniture articles etc. Varanasi and Amroha are particularly well known for lacquered woodcraft of UP. Numbers of lacquered toys, miniature kitchen utensils for children are made in this state.
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Saputra, Mochammad Septa Satria. "PELATIHAN KESENIAN REBANA GRUP AL-MAGHFIROH DI CIKAMBUY DESA SANGKANHURIP KECAMATAN KATAPANG KABUPATEN BANDUNG." DESKOVI : Art and Design Journal 3, no. 1 (2020): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.51804/deskovi.v3i1.727.
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Penelitian ini berjudul “pelatihan kesenian rebana grup Al-Maghfiroh di Cikambuy Desa Sangkanhurip Kecamatan Katapang Kabupaten Bandung”. Penelitian ini didasari oleh alasan dari grup kesenian rebana yang aktif di Cikambuy Kabupaten Bandung. Grup Al-Maghfiroh berbeda dengan grup kesenian rebana lainnya, grup ini digerakan oleh Pak Toni dan oleh murid-muridnya dan sering mengikuti kegiatan-kegiatan yang bernuansa Islami khususnya didaerah Cikambuy dan sekitarnya. Dengan bimbingan pelatih, murid mampu memainkan alat musik kesenian rebana secara bersama-sama, bergembira, serta mempunyai daya tarik tersendiri. Pada kegiatan latihan kesenian rebana, murid mendapat motivasi dari pelatih dan mendapat dukungan dari orang tua murid. Berdasarkan observasi kebeberapa tempat didaerah Cikambuy, Grup Al-Maghfiroh ini lebih cenderung menarik sehingga proses latihannya dilakukan dengan jadwal yang telah ditentukan tiap minggunya. Ini yang menjadi kajian penelitian saya, melihat dan mengamati proses pelatihan untuk diteliti dikediaman Pak Toni. Pelatihan kesenian rebana grup Al-Maghfiroh Kecamatan Katapang Kabupaten Bandung, dengan tujuan untuk memberikan gambaran tentang proses pelatihan kesenian rebana yang dilakukan di Cikambuy Kabupaten Bandung secara sistematis, faktual, serta aktual mengenai objek yang akan dikaji. Sedangkan teknik pengumpulan data yaitu melalui observasi, wawancara, dokumentasi, serta studi literarul. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa murid dapat lebih terampil dalam memainkan alat musik kesenian rabana, cara pelatihan yang dipakai oleh Pak Toni yaitu dengan cara di beo sangat membantu dalam hal menyampaikan materi kepada murid, dan adanya ketergantungan yang timbul dari murid dalam proses pelatihan sehingga terjadinya ketidak seriusan dalam pelatihan kesenian rebana. This research entitled “training of art of tambourine group Al-Maghfiroh in Cikambuy Village Sangkanhurip District Katapang District Bandung”. This research is based on the reason of grup of tambourine art that active in Cikambuy Regency Bandung. Group Al-Maghfiroh is different from other groups of tambourine art, this groups is driven by Mr.Toni and by his students and often follow the activities of Islamic nuance especially in Cikambuy and surrounding areas. With the coach’s guidance, students are able to play the tambourine art instrumen together, have fun, and have their own charms. In the rehearsal art training activities, students get motivation from the trainer and get support from the parents of the students. Based on observations to some places in Cikambuy area, this Al-Maghfiroh Group is more likely to attract so that the training process is done with the coach and his peers. This is the study of my research, looking at and observing the training process to be studied in Mr. Toni’s residence. Training of tambourine art group Al-Maghfiroh District Katapang Bandung Regency, with the aim to provide an overview of the art training process conducted Cikambuy Bandung regency as well as about the object to be studied. While the technique of data collection is through observation, interview, documentation, and literatur study. Based on the result of research shows that students can be more skilled in playing musical instruments rebana, the way of training used by Mr. Toni is by way of parrots very helpful in terms of delivering material to students, and the dependence arising from students in the training process so that the occurrence art training.
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Creel, Darrell, and Charmion McKusick. "Prehistoric Macaws and Parrots in the Mimbres Area, New Mexico." American Antiquity 59, no. 3 (1994): 510–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/282463.
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Macaws and parrots were important birds in prehistoric Mimbres-area communities by A.D. 1000. Scarlet macaws (Ara macao) apparently were imported into the area from the tropical lowlands in Mexico, but one other species each of macaw (Ara militaris) and parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) probably could have been obtained from much closer natural ranges. Macaws in particular evidently were of special, perhaps ceremonial, importance as indicated by consistent age at death, probably reflecting sacrifice in the spring, and by deliberate intramural burial, often in special rooms in the community. The sacrificing of macaws and the season in which it occurred were consistent in Mimbres and contemporaneous sites and began a pattern that continued in the Southwest perhaps until historic times.
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Johnson, Joel. "A Novel Twist to Tocqueville: Competing Visions of Democracy in Parrot and Olivier in America." Review of Politics 79, no. 2 (2017): 263–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670516001066.
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AbstractPeter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America is a fictionalized version of Tocqueville's travels through the young United States. Unlike Tocqueville, Olivier de Garmont is accompanied by Parrot Larrit, an English servant who offers a bold egalitarian counterpoint to Olivier's aristocratic liberalism. This article compares Carey's work with Tocqueville's on the consequences of democracy for political institutions, education, and art; discusses Carey's technique of using alternating narration between Olivier and Parrot to capture the complexities of American democracy; and concludes with thoughts about being a friendly critic of democracy in the twenty-first century. Although Parrot and Olivier is no substitute for Democracy in America, it addresses Tocqueville's concerns in a creative and subtle manner, prompting reflection on whether—to use Olivier's terms—democracy has “ripened well.”
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Robischon, Marcel. "The Parrot & the Palimpsest." American Biology Teacher 80, no. 7 (2018): 475. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/abt.2018.80.7.475.
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James, Paula. "How Classical is Ariadne's Parrot? Southall's Painting and Its Literary Registers." Ramus 39, no. 1 (2010): 53–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0048671x00000539.
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In this article I suggest ways in which a gorgeously crafted, colourful, compelling 20th century painting of an abandoned Ariadne highlights both her tragic and comic presence in classical literary representations. Joseph South-all's 1925-6 work Ariadne in Naxos (tempera on linen, 83.5 × 101.6 cm), reproduced below, can be viewed in all its glory in the Birmingham City Art Gallery (bequeathed by the artist's widow, Anne Elizabeth, in 1948) but it was featured to fine effect in the 2007 exhibition The Parrot in Art: From Dürer to Elizabeth Butterworth, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham. It was in this psittacine (psittaceous?) context that I first encountered Ariadne's parrot so the bird perhaps loomed larger in the painting than it might as a stand-alone Southall on its home ground in the Gallery.
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Moore McAllen, Katherine. "Jesuit Winemaking and Art Production in Northern New Spain." Journal of Jesuit Studies 6, no. 2 (2019): 294–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22141332-00602006.
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This article presents new research on Jesuit visual culture in northern New Spain, situating Santa María de las Parras (founded 1598) as an important site where the Jesuits and secular landowners became involved in the lucrative business of winemaking. Viticulture in Parras helped transform this mission settlement into a thriving center of consumption. The Jesuits fostered alliances with Spanish and Tlaxcalan Indians to serve their religious and temporal interests, as these patrons donated funds to decorate chapels in the Jesuit church of San Ignacio. This financial support allowed the Society to purchase paintings by prominent artists in Mexico City and import them to Parras. The Jesuits arranged their chapels in a carefully ordered sequencing of images that promoted Ignatian spirituality and echoed iconographic decoration programs in Mexico City and Rome.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Parrots in art"
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Klövekorn, Henning Andreas. "Endangered bird species in South Australia : are current recovery practices for the Orange-bellied parrot and Kangaroo Island glossy black cockatoo succeeding? /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envk66.pdf.
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Saunders, Debra L. "Ecology and conservation of the swift parrot : an endangered austral migrant /." View thesis entry in Australian Digital program, 2008. http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20081010.161656/index.html.
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com, khalesi20022002@yahoo, and Bahman Khalesi. "Studies of beak and feather disease virus infection." Murdoch University, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20071119.90905.
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The circovirus Beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) causes psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) that is characterised by a chronic disease process associated with feather abnormalities, beak deformities and eventual death in various species of birds in the order Psittaciformes. This disease is seen in captive and wild psittacine species in Australia and several other countries and is a significant threat to the survival of some endangered psittacine species.
This thesis reports on genetic studies that have furthered the understanding of the diversity of BFDV present within Australia. These studies have optimised methods of detecting BFDV. They have also resulted in the production of an immunogenic and antigenic recombinant BFDV Capsid protein that could lead to alternate methods of producing viral antigen for serological tests and the development of a BFDV vaccine.
To assess the optimal method of the detection of BFDV infection, feather and blood samples were submitted by referring veterinarians throughout Australia from psittacine birds tentatively diagnosed with PBFD or with a history of being in contact with PBFD-affected birds. These samples were examined by 3 procedures commonly used to detect BFDV infection: a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay and haemagglutination (HA) for the detection of virus, and haemagglutination inhibition (HI) tests for the detection of virus antibody in response to infection. Of the samples examined from 623 psittacine birds, the prevalence of BFDV DNA in feather samples detected by PCR was 18.85%. There was a strong correlation between PCR and HA testing of feather samples, although possible false-positive and false-negative PCR and HA results were obtained in some samples. Of the 143 birds that were PCR feather-positive only 2 had detectable HI antibody and these birds were also HA feather-negative, which suggests that they were developing immunity to recent infection. All birds with HI antibody were feather HA negative.
Despite the rare occurrence of PBFD in cockatiels (Nymphicus hollandicus), 2 of the 13 samples collected from this species were PCR and HA positive indicating that this species can be infected with BFDV.
Three studies were undertaken to further our understanding of the genetics of BFDV in Australian avifauna: sequence analysis of the BFDV detected in a grey cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus), a species normally considered resistant to infection with BFDV; analysis of the genome of BFDV present in lorikeets (Trichoglossus sp.) in Australia; and analysis of the genome of BFDV detected in endangered swift parrots (Lathamus discolor). Sequence analysis of the entire genome of the cockatiel BFDV isolate revealed that it clustered phylogenetically with 2 other viruses, one from a sulphur crested cockatoo (SCC1-AUS) and one from a Major Mitchell cockatoo (MMC-AUS), which suggests that this isolate from the grey cockatiel was not a cockatiel-specific biotype. Phylogenetic analysis of the ORF V1 of BFDV detected in 7 lorikeets demonstrated these 7 isolates clustered phylogenetically with other BFDV isolates obtained from Loriidae species elsewhere in the world and confirmed the presence of a loriid-specific genotype. Phylogenetic analysis of the sequence data generated from ORF V1 of virus detected in 2 endangered swift parrots provided evidence they were also infected with BFDV genotypes derived from other species of birds, one isolate clustering with viruses from a Loriidae genotype and the other with isolates derived from species of Cacatuidae and Psittacidae.
As part of this research, a baculovirus expression system was successfully developed for the production of recombinant BFDV Capsid protein. Inoculation of this protein into chickens resulted in the development of HI antibody, which demonstrated its immunogenicity. When used as an antigen in HI tests it detected antibody in virus-infected birds, which demonstrated its antigenicity. This protein offers potential application as an antigen for the development of serological tests and as an immunogen for incorporation into vaccines for control of PBFD.
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Shearer, Patrick. "Development of novel diagnostic and vaccine options for beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) /." Murdoch University Digital Theses Program, 2008. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090720.142800.
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Murdoch University (Ph.D.)--Murdoch University, 2008.<br>Contains three published journal articles at back of thesis. Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 196-231)
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Cooney, Stuart John Norman, and stuart cooney@anu edu au. "Ecological Associations of the Hooded Parrot (Psephotus dissimilis)." The Australian National University. School of Botany and Zoology, 2009. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20090609.120032.
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Interactions between nesting birds and invertebrates are a common, yet poorly understood ecological phenomenon. Many of these types of interactions are close and prolonged, and therefore potentially critical to one or both of the species involved in the interaction. However it is unusual for the nature of the interaction to be evaluated in a manner that reveals the impact of the relationship on both parties to the interaction. This study examines two relationships between nesting birds and invertebrates, both of which involve the hooded parrot (Psephotus dissimilis), a small grass parrot that inhabits the tropical savannas of northern Australia.
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The field-work for this project was conducted over two parrot breeding seasons in 2006 and 2007 near Katherine, Northern Territory, in the Australian dry tropics. In chapter II, I present data on the breeding biology of the hooded parrot as background for the study that follows. Nest building commenced in January, with peak activity in February and the last chicks fledged in April. Fifty three active nests were located. The mean number of eggs laid per nest was 4.5 (s.d. ± 0.9), of which 3.0 (± 1.79) hatched and 2.0 (± 2.0) fledged. Clutches were laid asynchronously over a period of a week and chicks remained in eggs for 18.6 (± 1.95 days). Chicks were 29.2 (± 2.9) days old when they fledged from the nest. These data are typical for Australian parrots.
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In chapter III, the unusual nature of the parrots nest site is examined. Many species of bird nest in natural cavities or those they excavate. Whilst cavity nesters as a whole experience increased nesting success, the greatest success is experienced by species that can excavate their own nests. Certain arboreal cavity nesters, such as woodpeckers, require extensive morphological adaptation for this behaviour, but this has not occurred in Australia, despite competition among birds and a suite of arboreal mammals for naturally occurring cavities. Some species, however, have adapted their behaviour to make use of substrates that are not as hard as wood. Hooded parrots excavate nests in terrestrial termitaria, releasing them from competition for limited arboreal cavities. However, I show that only termitaria with a high level of termite activity, and which are more than two metres tall, are suitable, and that the parrots exhibit a strong preference for the cathedral mounds of Nasutitermes triodiae. Nests placed in highly active mounds had a significantly higher success rate than those in mounds where activity was somewhat lower, suggesting that the behaviour is adaptive.
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The thesis then shifts focus from the parrot to its nest symbiont, first describing the species involved in the interaction in chapter IV, and then its behaviour in the nests of hooded parrots in chapter V. Trisyntopa neossophila sp. n. (Lepidoptera: Oecophoridae) was reared from the nest of the hooded parrot and described using morphological characters. Aspects of its biology are reported and similarities to the biology of Trisyntopa scatophaga found in the nests of the golden-shouldered parrot (Psephotus chrysopterygius) are discussed. The possibility that a moth was associated with the extinct paradise parrot (Psephotus pulcherrimus) is considered in the light of the phylogenetic relationships between the parrots.
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Trisyntopa neossophila is an unusual moth whose breeding cycle is shown to be closely synchronised with the hooded parrot. T. neossophila is one of three coprophagous, nest dwelling moths in the genus Trisyntopa. True coprophagy is rare in the Lepidoptera, although some species occasionally consume faeces to gain rare nutrients. T. neossophila lays its eggs in the nest of hooded parrots so that larvae hatch in synchrony with the hatching of the parrots eggs. The larvae spend their larval period in the nest and exclusively consume the excrement of the nestling parrots. When the parrot chicks fledge, the larvae move to the walls of the nest cavity to pupate, emerging the following wet season to repeat the process during the next parrot breeding season.
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With a description of the ecology of both species involved in the nesting symbiosis, chapter VI reviews the literature surrounding other interactions between nesting birds and invertebrates. A large number of birds are shown to nest in, or in close proximity to, structures made by invertebrates and avian nesting material provides a reliable shelter for many invertebrate species. However, the nature of such relationships has rarely been experimentally demonstrated. I propose that in order to understand the nature of these relationships they need to be explored within the theoretical framework of community ecology. Putative commensal and parasitic relationships have all been documented in the bird/invertebrate nesting literature, yet researchers, with few exceptions, repeatedly overlook the impact that these relationships are having on the invertebrate, at best assuming the nature of its impact, but more often ignoring its impact entirely. Here I present a framework for formulating hypotheses to ensure that the nature of the relationship can be identified. Only by explicitly stating the level of organisation at which the experiment is to occur (individual or population), identifying the net cost or benefit of the interaction, the range of conditions under which such costs or benefits would apply and the spatial and temporal context in which they apply, can an investigator expect to recognise and describe the often complex nature of these relationships.
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While parasitic and commensal relationships between nesting birds and invertebrates are commonly reported, mutualisms between birds and invertebrates have not been reported. Despite this, candidates for this type of relationship exist. Chapter VII uses the framework outlined in the literature review (chapter VI) to experimentally examine the relationship between the hooded parrot and Trisyntopa neossophila. By manipulating the populations of moth larvae in a sample of hooded parrot nests, we sought to establish the impact of the relationship on each species. The moth depends on the parrot for provision of shelter and a reliable food source. The parrot however, was neither benefited nor harmed by the interaction in terms of short term reproductive output or chick growth, although differences between the experimental and control nests were noted. The relationship between the hooded parrot and T. neossophila, at least during the study period, is therefore concluded to be commensal.
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Collectively, the chapters of this thesis explore the complicated interactions between species. The dependence of the moth on the parrot and the parrot on the termite, demonstrate the importance of understanding interactions between species in a manner that reveals the impacts of the interactions, the range of conditions under which they would apply and the level of organisation at which they apply, as outlined in chapter VI. The dependence of the animals in this study on each other makes them more vulnerable to extinction than previously thought. Whilst this may not be immediately significant for the hooded parrot/T. neossophila system, which is thought to be secure, the ecologically similar system on the Cape York Peninsula, involving the golden-shouldered parrot and its nest attendant moth Trysintopa scatophaga, is vulnerable to extinction and subject to intensive management to ensure its persistence. This study brings new information to the management of the golden-shouldered parrots and urgently recommends increased protection for Trysintopa scatophaga.
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Saunders, Debra, and debbie saunders@anu edu au. "Ecology and conservation of the swift parrot - an endangered austral migrant." The Australian National University. College of Science, 2008. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20081010.161656.
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The swift parrot (Lathamus discolor, Psittacidae) is an endangered, austral migrant that inhabits forests and woodlands of south-eastern Australia. With a small population size (2500 birds), broad winter distribution (1 250 000 km2) and often cryptic nature, the swift parrot is a challenging species to study. In autumn they migrate north from their Tasmanian breeding grounds in search of suitable food resources throughout their winter range on mainland Australia. They are therefore dependent on a combination of suitable wintering, migration and breeding habitats. Although they spend a large proportion of their lives within winter habitats, the spatial and temporal dynamics of habitat use in this part of their range is poorly understood. This thesis aims to provide a greater understanding of large-scale winter habitat use by swift parrots, in both historic and current contexts, and provide a basis for future conservation management.
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Swift parrots, or red-shouldered paroquets as they were previously known, were among the first Australian birds to be scientifically described and illustrated following European settlement in 1788. However, within 60 years of settlement, habitats throughout the range of the species were being impacted upon. An important aspect of this habitat loss is the speed and spatial extent with which it occurred throughout the parrots broad distribution. Although the most extensive habitat loss in some areas occurred during colonial times, habitats continue to be lost as a result of various land management practices. Such impacts are also likely to be exacerbated by the ongoing cumulative impact with rapid climate change. As a result the swift parrot is an endangered species and is the subject of an ongoing national recovery program, to which this thesis contributes.
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Conserving habitat for the swift parrot, and other wide-ranging fauna species, is challenging since impacts in one area tend to be dismissed based on the assumption that there is sufficient habitat in other areas. These conservation challenges are discussed in regard to the national swift parrot recovery program. Although recovery program implementation for this species has been successful in identifying and protecting some important habitats, there are still many gaps in our knowledge that need to be addressed through a continuing and adaptive recovery effort, including an understanding of variable habitat use throughout their winter range.
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A study of swift parrot winter habitat use was therefore conducted at 53 sites across New South Wales over five years (2001-2005). Swift parrots used a diversity of winter foraging habitats in coastal and/or western slopes regions of New South Wales each year, including several habitats that occur in endangered ecological communities. Landscapes containing winter foraging habitat included scattered trees, remnant vegetation and continuous forests, and swift parrots foraged extensively on lerp and nectar from a diversity of tree species within these. The occurrence of swift parrots at foraging sites was primarily associated with the abundance of lerp, nectar and non-aggressive competitors. Although swift parrot abundance fluctuated significantly between years and regions, over half of all foraging sites were used repeatedly, highlighting their likely importance for conservation.
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Patterns of habitat use throughout the species winter range were also studied across five states/territories using volunteer data from 4140 surveys. These surveys were conducted by up to 300 volunteers twice a year, for seven years (1998-2004) with swift parrots detected in 19% of surveys. As a result, this study provided the first demonstration of large-scale drought related movements by a migratory population throughout their winter range. It also demonstrated the dynamic spatial and temporal patterns of winter habitat use, including repeated use of sites, by an austral migrant. Four regions in central Victoria were used most consistently, although the birds also visited other regions each year.
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During drought swift parrot abundance was significantly correlated with rainfall, whereby most of the population either concentrated in a few regions or migrated longer distances (up to 1000km) to drought refuges in wetter coastal areas. However, swift parrot abundance was not associated with specific climate variables during years of average to high rainfall throughout most of their range. Instead they appeared to prefer habitats within particular regions. Importantly this study emphasises that conservation measures need to be implemented throughout the distribution of migratory species, including drought refuge habitats and areas outside conservation reserves.
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McAllen, Katherine. "Rethinking Frontier Paradigms in Northeastern New Spain: Jesuit Mission Art at Santa María de las Parras, 1598-1767." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10500.
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This dissertation addresses key questions that are yet to be answered related to the involvement of local patrons in the decoration of northern New Spanish churches. The case study of the Jesuits' church of San Ignacio in Santa María de las Parras (located in present-day Coahuila, Mexico) reveals new evidence that prominent Spanish and Tlaxcaltecan Indian benefactors participated in the adornment of private devotional chapels in this religious space. In Parras, the Jesuits and secular landowners cultivated vineyards and participated in the lucrative business of viticulture that transformed this mission settlement by the mid-seventeenth century into a thriving winemaking center. As the Jesuits created their own "spiritual economy" in Parras on the northeastern frontier, they fostered alliances with Spanish and Tlaxcaltecan vineyard owners to serve both their religious and temporal interests (Chapter One). The surviving evidence of artworks and inventories reveals that these benefactors donated funds to decorate their own chapels in San Ignacio. This financial support helped the Jesuits purchase and import paintings by prominent artists working in Mexico City for display in their Parras church. While these patrons selected the iconographies of the artworks they funded, the Jesuits also arranged their chapels in a carefully ordered sequencing of images to promote devotions that were commensurate with Ignatian spirituality (Chapter Two). To shed more light on the process in which the Jesuits coordinated the circulation of devotional images from Mexico City to Parras, this study will examine travel logs to document the mobility of the Jesuits and their frequent movement between metropolitan settings and the northern frontier. By tracking the circulation of individuals as well as artworks, it is possible to uncover how the Society's process of fostering relationships with donors operated in Parras just as it did in larger cities such as Mexico City, Lima, Cuzco, and Rome (Chapter Three). Vineyard metaphors that resonated with special symbolic meaning at Parras also took on a new relevance when martyrdom became an omnipresent subject in the wake of Indian revolts. Evangelization on the frontiers of the Christian world became integral to the Jesuits' formation of their missionary identity in both New Spain and Europe. This study will present evidence of rare martyrdom drawings produced in Mexico and transported to Rome that played an active role in transforming the importance of the New Spanish frontier and catalyzed the creation of new artworks in Mexico City and Rome (Chapter Four). The evidence uncovered in this study has important implications for the field of colonial art history, as it reveals that art production in Parras was not an isolated missionary phenomenon but rather part of a dynamic network of artistic patronage and cultural exchange that moved in both directions between Europe and New Spain. This re-contextualizing of center-periphery paradigms further demonstrates that metropolitan and frontier relationships were not always opposed to each other, but rather interacted within a larger network of artistic dialogue.<br>History of Art and Architecture
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Kalionis, Jennifer Parr Mike. "The resurgent body : a reaction to politics or digital disembodiment?: an investigation of Mike Parr's work since 2001 /." 2005. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARAHM/09arahmk144.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.(St.Art.Hist.)) -- University of Adelaide, Master of Arts (Studies in Art History), School of History and Politics, Discipline of History, 2005.<br>Coursework. 2 December 2005. Bibliography: leaves 74-91.
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Klövekorn, Henning Andreas. "Endangered bird species in South Australia : are current recovery practices for the Orange-bellied parrot and Kangaroo Island glossy black cockatoo succeeding?" 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envk66.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 108-113. This dissertation givens and analytical overview of the research and recovery actions for the Orange-bellied Parrot and the Kangaroo Island Glossy Black-Cockatoo and evaluates the successful practices and those which have failed. This research shows that new recovery action initiatives can still be found and that not all recommendations in recovery plans are followed, which impairs the efficiency of the recovery efforts. It concludes that a successful recovery effort of these two bird species lies in continued research, a serious compliance with the recommendations made by recovery plans and by further environmental education in society.
Books on the topic "Parrots in art"
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Parrots, macaws, and cockatoos: The art of Elizabeth Butterworth. H.N. Abrams, 1988.
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van, Hout Nico, and Zuien Eva van, eds. Papegaai: 't cierlijk schoon van haare veeren. Rockoxhuis, 2014.
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Dillon, Lorna. Violeta Parra’s Visual Art. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38407-4.
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Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh. A princess with a parrot. Govt. Museum and Art Gallery, 2010.
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Carlos, Recio Dávila, ed. Exvotos de Parras. Gobierno del Estado de Coahuila de Zaragoza, Secretaría de Cultura de Zaragoza, 2013.
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Dillon, Lorna. "Turning Protest Music into Art." In Violeta Parra’s Visual Art. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38407-4_4.
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Dillon, Lorna. "Introduction to Violeta Parra’s Visual Art: Painted Songs." In Violeta Parra’s Visual Art. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38407-4_1.
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Dillon, Lorna. "The Regeneration of Chilean Traditional Culture Through Violeta Parra’s Art." In Violeta Parra’s Visual Art. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38407-4_2.
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Dillon, Lorna. "Surrealism, Pop Art and Modern Aesthetics in Violeta Parra’s Papier-Mâché Sculptures, Paintings and Embroideries." In Violeta Parra’s Visual Art. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38407-4_3.
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Dillon, Lorna. "Conclusion to Violeta Parra’s Visual Art: Painted Songs." In Violeta Parra’s Visual Art. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38407-4_5.
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Hillix, William A., and Duane M. Rumbaugh. "Where do We Stand and Where Are We Going?" In Animal Bodies, Human Minds: Ape, Dolphin, and Parrot Language Skills. Springer US, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4512-2_16.
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Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth. "Who Writes for the Trees?: Wide Sargasso Sea, the Dominican Forest, and Its Parrots." In Wide Sargasso Sea at 50. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28223-3_8.
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Green, Charles. "DEAD PARROT SOCIETY." In Art and Globalization. Penn State University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv14gp91q.40.
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Green, Charles. "Dead parrot society." In Art and Globalization. Penn State University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780271072258-038.
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Holm, Melanie D. "“O Friends, There Are No Friends”: The Aesthetics of Avian Sympathy in Defoe and Sterne." In Mocking Bird Technologies. Fordham University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823278480.003.0002.
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This chapter examines the use of avian figures in eighteenth-century British literature, focusing on their role as interrogators of sympathy. Taking Daniel Defoe’s The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy as exemplary though opposing approaches, the chapter explores how the speech of each novel’s respective “mocking bird”—the parrot, Poll, and Yorick’s starling—raises questions about the imaginative and mimetic nature of sympathy, particularly as it is given expression by Adam Smith. Both birds, it is argued, unmask the subjectivity as well as the aesthetic and affective dimensions of sympathy for their listeners. However, the novels place an usually high value on these categories, proposing that that there are two ways to respond productively to the artifices of sympathy: the parrot’s way and the starling’s way.
Conference papers on the topic "Parrots in art"
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Mas, Ignacio, Sebastian Curi, Christopher Kitts, and Juan I. Giribet. "Visual Target-Tracking Using a Formation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles." In ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2015-47789.
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We present a method to visually track and follow a target using a platoon of three unmanned aerial vehicles for the purpose of surveillance, monitoring or escorting. A coordination control technique that enhances specification and monitoring of high level formation parameters such as position, orientation and size is used as a basis for the coordination. A model of a video camera is employed to obtain relative positions with respect to the target of interest. An open-source simulator of Parrot Ar.Drone quadrotors running on the Robot Operating System environment is used to demonstrate the system functionality. Two test cases are presented to illustrate the validity of the approach.
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Grammar, Alex W., and Robert L. Williams. "Design of a Robotic Gripper Based on a Psittacus Erithacu Beak." In ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2012-70244.
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A high versatility, low degrees-of-freedom (DOF) gripper was designed based on avian morphology. Grasping mechanisms for robotic manipulators are often developed for application-specific tasks, such as manipulating a single part or performing a repetitive action. In contrast, more dexterous grippers are complex, multiple-DOF mechanisms. A simple, minimal-DOF, versatile gripper has been developed based on the morphology of the Psittacus Erithacu (African Grey Parrot) beak shape. This species is highly intelligent and uses its beak for digging, gripping, climbing, and foraging. Giving a robot a similar capability would allow the platform to pick up targets such as single, small seeds, liquids, large irregular rocks and soft Robocup style balls. By using the beak as a model for a grasping mechanism the design maintains its versatility without the need for a complex system and allows a large range of targets to be gripped. This gripper is intended for use in the new open-source humanoid robot DARwIn-OP.
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Reid, Christopher J., Biswanath Samanta, and Christopher Kadlec. "Development of a Network Infrastructure for Heterogeneous Robot and Control Systems Interactions." In ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2015-52464.
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The use of robots in complex tasks such as search and rescue operations is becoming more and more common. These robots often work independently with no cooperation with other robots or control software, and are very limited in their ability to perform dynamic tasks and interact with both humans and other robots. To this end, a system must be developed to facilitate the cooperation of heterogeneous robots to complete complex tasks. To model and study human-robot and robot-robot interactions in a multi-system environment, a robust network infrastructure must be implemented to support the broad nature of these studies. The work presented here details the creation of a cloud-based infrastructure designed to support the introduction and implementation of multiple heterogeneous robots to the environment utilizing the Robot Operating System (ROS). Implemented robots include both ground-based (e.g. Turtlebot) and air-based (e.g Parrot ARDrone2.0) systems. Additional hardware is also implemented, such as embedded vision systems, host computers to support virtual machines for software implementation, and machines with graphics processing units (GPUs) for additional computational resources. Control software for the robots is implemented in the system with complexities ranging from simple teleoperation to skeletal tracking and neural network simulators. A robust integration of multiple heterogeneous components, including both hardware and software, is achieved.