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Likewise with the dead White-faced Storm Petrel
found on the road near Jerrabomberra wetlands in Canberra and the unwell
Wedge-tailed Shearwater found at a petrol station in central Canberra. Both from
the 1980s but are on our list.
Philip
Robert
Read wrote:
>
> John,
>
> Just a caution.
Road-killed birds can be carried some distance on
> radiator grilles,
you need to be careful in drawing conclusions.
>
> Good luck
with the Night Parrot hunt anway. They are such an elusive
>
creature that it is worth trying anything.
>
> Robert
Read
> Alice Springs.
From:
John
> To: Birding-aus
>
> I remember that the mummified
corpse of a Night Parrot was
> found in
an area where the Mitchell grass had produced seed.
>
> John Penhallurick
>
And one
example of the transported roadkill is the dead male Redcapped
Robin
which I picked up in Greville St, Prahran (Melbourne). It was
accompanied
by a lot of pale long grass - definitely not a local product
... I looked
about and found a large 4WD vehicle parked in the gutter,
with a lot more
of the same grass caught behind the bull-bar.
My conclusion
was that the bird had been killed while the vehicle was
passing through
the long grass area, probably north of the Divide, and
the owner had
parked the car and then cleaned out the radiator grille
and bull-bar,
throwing the bird onto the road (where it was
extremely
conspicuous).
Unfortunately the specimen
was definitely 'high' and not suitable
for the Museum, but I reported it,
with full explanation, just the same.
Anthea Fleming
in Ivanhoe,
Vic.
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