'The common cormorant or shag lays eggs inside a paper bag'. A cultural ecology of fish-eating birds in Western Australia

Environment and History

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-52

  Sassoon, Joanna ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cultural ecology; Cultural history; Ecological consciousness; Environmental history; Piscivores

Indexed keywords

BIRD; IDEOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PISCIVORE;

AUSTRALIA; PERTH; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AVES; CYGNUS;

EID: 0037299769     PISSN: 09673407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3197/096734003129342764     Document Type: Article

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