Hi everybody -
At 03:55 PM 15/05/00 +1000, Lawrie Conole wrote:
>I have no beef about secrecy if indeed there were Night Parrots seen at
>Newhaven, however:
>
> * Who were the trained observers?
> * What kind of observing were they trained to do?
The observers certainly had no formal training in Night Parrot
identification, but they have had the informal training of a combination or
several years of experience with the property and an interest in the birds
there. One of them is a zoologist who has compiled the bird-list.
Conversations with them about the sighting have been fairly convincing. We
hope to be able to make more details available about this in due course.
>Newhaven looks like a fabulous spot from the pictures on the blurb. It'd
>be nice to get a better idea of its conservation values though.
More detail on such matters in the June Wingspan.
>There doesn't
>appear to be anything on the BA web page yet about Newhaven.
Yes, there have been some delays with the web page, but it will be up soon.
Cheers,
Hugo
Hugo Phillipps
Communications Coordinator
Birds Australia
415 Riversdale Road
HAWTHORN EAST 3123, Australia
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