Finding endangered birds with the aid of 'detector dogs'

[Graeme Chapman <>]

Ground Parrots used to be hunted around Sydney in the "old days" using dogs to 
point them. I am sure a similar technique would work to locate Night Parrots if 
you first knew roughly where they were, but rather time consuming in a ten 
thousand acre paddock.

It seems dogs CAN sniff out Night Parrots. A point that seems to have been 
forgotten with  all this cat discussion is that possibly the worst enemy is the 
fox, borne out by the fact that most recent records in Australia have been 
north of the"Fox line" which is a latitude  where dingoes largely replace 
foxes. I seem to remember reading somewhere that about the time foxes reached 
Alice Springs, the local Night Parrots disappeared.

Cheers

Graeme Chapman
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