Eamon Evans on the Italian cockatoo

In his new book, Whatever Happened to Ned Kelly’s Head?, EAMON EVANS investigates Australia’s most curious mysteries, digging up the evidence and laying it out for the court of public opinion to decide. He looks into who stole the priceless Picasso from the NGV, if Errol Flynn was a Nazi spy and whether an Australian killed the infamous Red Baron. In this extract he points out an Australian iconic bird in an Italian painting masterpiece.