Robert Read wrote:
>
> John,
>
> Just a caution. Road-killed birds can be carried some distance on
> radiator grilles, you need to be careful in drawing conclusions.
>
> Good luck with the Night Parrot hunt anway. They are such an elusive
> creature that it is worth trying anything.
>
> Robert Read
> Alice Springs.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ---(in part)--
>
> From: John
> To: Birding-aus
>
> I remember that the mummified corpse of a Night Parrot was
> found in an area where the Mitchell grass had produced seed.
>
> John Penhallurick
>
And one example of the transported roadkill is the dead male Redcapped
Robin which I picked up in Greville St, Prahran (Melbourne). It was
accompanied by a lot of pale long grass - definitely not a local product
... I looked about and found a large 4WD vehicle parked in the gutter,
with a lot more of the same grass caught behind the bull-bar.
My conclusion was that the bird had been killed while the vehicle was
passing through the long grass area, probably north of the Divide, and
the owner had parked the car and then cleaned out the radiator grille
and bull-bar, throwing the bird onto the road (where it was extremely
conspicuous).
Unfortunately the specimen was definitely 'high' and not suitable
for the Museum, but I reported it, with full explanation, just the same.
Anthea Fleming
in Ivanhoe, Vic.
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