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Night Parrots?

To: Hugo Phillipps <>
Subject: Night Parrots?
From: Peter Woodall <>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 13:13:00 +1000
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
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