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Finding endangered birds with the aid of 'detector dogs'

To: Graeme Chapman <>
Subject: Finding endangered birds with the aid of 'detector dogs'
From: Dave Torr <>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 20:59:46 +1100
Graeme
I recall that when foxes were removed from the Western ground parrot area
cat numbers increased and parrot numbers declined?
On 15 Mar 2015 16:50, "Graeme Chapman" <>
wrote:

> 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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