CURLEWS ON VULTURE STREET CITIES, BIRDS, PEOPLE AND ME Claire Beattie For perhaps fifty thousand years

For perhaps fifty thousand years the Aboriginal people have lived

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CURLEWS ON VULTURE STREET CITIES, BIRDS, PEOPLE AND ME Claire Beattie For perhaps fifty thousand yearsIn Curlews on Vulture Street, acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones reveals the not so secret lives of the most common birds that share our towns and cities. Despite the noise, heat, dust and fumes, the ceaseless movement, light and toxins, many birds successfully live their lives among us. And not just furtively in the shadows. Ibis steal our lunch, brush turkeys rearrange gardens and magpies chase us screaming from near their nest. From his