Ornithological Discoveries - The work Paul Walbridge, Dave Stewart, myself and
a few others elsewhere are doing on this as yet unidentified Storm-Petrel will
be a major event - once we have more data. This is work in progress - it's
either a long lost rediscovery (Lined Storm-Petrel - last seen & collected in
the mid 1800s) or a totally new species. Watch this space - approximately 40
birds have been sighted and one examined in the hand. More field work is
planned for early 2016.
Rob
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> On 30 Aug 2015, at 07:40, Peter Shute <> wrote:
>
> Interesting discussion. It's probably hard to compare achievements like that,
> and Laurie's example of clearing Macquarie Island of ferals, and perhaps
> Gould's Birds of Australia, with finding a Night Parrot population.
>
> While all of them required good planning, funding, persistence and
> determination, the first three only required enough of those things to
> guarantee success. John's task had a huge chance of failure the whole way, no
> matter how much he put into it. Lots of others have tried and failed.
>
> Lots of birders would know what it feels like staking out a cryptic species.
> You sit there for hours, thinking about the other birds you could be seeing
> right now, knowing you might see what you came for at any moment, or wait
> that long again and go home having seen nothing at all.
>
> Peter Shute
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On 29 Aug 2015, at 11:30 pm, Charles <> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, good call.
>>
>> Any others?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Charles Hunter
>> +61 402 907 577
>>
>>> On 29 Aug 2015, at 9:58 pm, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well how about HANZAB?
>>>
>>> Philip
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
>>> Charles
>>> Sent: Saturday, 29 August 2015 7:47 PM
>>> To: martin cachard
>>> Cc:
>>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] How has the Night Parrot survived in south-west
>>> Queensland?
>>>
>>> What other achievements in the last 2-3 decades are there?
>>>
>>> Interested to know what people think other avian achievements (in
>>> Australia) that may compare.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Charles Hunter
>>> +61 402 907 577
>>>
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