I cannot recollect where or when I was told this, but I have heard of
camel riders occasionally observing small green parrots flushed from
spinifex. A camel makes no sound when walking and brushes against the
bushes, and the rider is at a convenient height to see anything flushed.
This of course comes in the hearsay category.
Anthea Fleming
On 23/04/2017 6:43 AM, Denise Goodfellow wrote:
> Over the years various the occasional truck driver has told me of sighting
> small, squat, green parrots while driving in outback Australia. Although
> I’ve not heard similar reports from road workers, it seems feasible that they
> too may have had such sightings. Why not survey this lot as well?
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> Kind regards
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> Denise
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> On 20 Apr 2017, at 8:07 am, Anne Brophy <> wrote:
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>> Dear Helen, Graeme and Peter,
>>
>> Surely there is a log or database of sightings ranging from the confirmed to
>> the mythological in regards to Night Parrots? John Young and others must
>> have used something along these lines to initiate their searches. A search
>> through the literature, museum records and that valuable commodity of
>> searches past, "heresay".
>>
>> Strikes me that now is the time to add the “heresay" and gossip to the
>> debate and see what patterns emerge. This must have been done by someone… if
>> not, in the age of social media, it is the time to start before its too late
>> and the “sources" are not available any more to living memory!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Anne
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>>> On 19 Apr 2017, at 16:04, Peter Shute <> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there a central repository of all these possible/probably Night Parrot
>>> sightings? Given that a lot of them had until recently not much more
>>> credibility than a thylacine sighting, I wonder if most of them were never
>>> reported.
>>>
>>> Peter Shute
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>>> On 19 Apr 2017, at 2:07 pm, Graeme Chapman
>>>> <> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Helen,
>>>>
>>>> Your information about a sighting at Ardmore Station is quite important,
>>>> because that is not far from Devoncourt where there have also been
>>>> reports in the past.
>>>>
>>>> The ranges SW of Cloncurry may well be another "hot spot" for Night
>>>> Parrots, although a concerted search for them there some years ago was
>>>> unsuccessful.
>>>>
>>>> I know of two other "heresay" reports from that area, one of them a bird
>>>> caught in a mist net.
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes
>>>>
>>>> Graeme Chapman
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