At 10:01 17/05/2000 +1000, you wrote:
>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,
This is not a serious dig at anyone!
I hadn't realised that there
was such a thing as "formal training in Night Parrot identification"
but in my imagination it might go something like this
Lecturer - showing video to the rapt students,
This black shape coming down to a waterhole on a pitch black night
is a moo-cow;
This black shape coming down the the waterhole on a pitch black night,
is a sheep;
but THIS black shape is a Night parrot.
Cheers
Pete
Dr Peter Woodall email =
Division of Vet Pathology & Anatomy
School of Veterinary Science. Phone = +61 7 3365 2300
The University of Queensland Fax = +61 7 3365 1355
Brisbane, Qld, Australia 4072 WWW = http://www.uq.edu.au/~anpwooda
"hamba phezulu" (= "go higher" in isiZulu)
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