About

Talking Birds has been published every month since September 2004.

Starting at eight years of age TB’s publisher, Lloyd Marshall, kept/bred budgies, canaries, doves, finches, lorikeets, parrots and cockatoos.

For eight-and-a-half years, until midway through 2019, he was involved in caring for parrots, cockatoos, lorikeets, finches, budgies, kookaburras, white swans, black swans, various native, exotic and domestic  geese and ducks, peafowl, pheasants and rare poultry at a native animal sanctuary in Victoria.

There were also two bettong species, four wallaby species, two pademelon species, two sugar glider species, emus, sheep, goats, an alpaca and a llama.

During his media career, Lloyd worked as a journalist throughout Australia and in the UK.

He now lives in semi-retirement in Queensland.

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