Again it's a difficult comparison. I'm guessing your potential
discovery/rediscovery wasn't the result of a long search for that particular
species (fill me in if I'm wrong), but what else is it about Night Parrots that
captured everyone's attention?
It seems like I regularly see news about a new species being discovered in a
remote jungle somewhere, but it passes almost without comment. Perhaps it's
because the Night Parrot is a land species, and lots of us have passed through
potential habitat, with the possibility of a sighting in the back of our minds.
Or participated in or read about the expeditions searching for it. Add to that
the many reported possible sightings over the years, and it has become a legend.
Peter Shute
> -----Original Message-----
> From: robert morris
> Sent: Sunday, 30 August 2015 8:36 AM
> To: Peter Shute
> Cc: Charles; Birding Aus
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] How has the Night Parrot survived
> in south-west Queensland?
>
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > 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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