Night Parrots in the news (but no sightings)

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Subject:	Night Parrots in the news (but no sightings)
From:	Andrew Taylor <>
Date:	Tue, 3 Mar 2009 13:13:22 +1100

Two news stories mentioning Night Parrots:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25117223-2702,00.htm
http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/News/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=enonline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED28
 Feb 2009 09%3A49%3A35%3A367


The first story has nice pics of floodwaters heading for Lake Eyre.
I don't understand why floodwaters would have be much good for
Night Parrots though.  

If Night Parrots do like rain they should be smiling in the Pilbara.
Looks like a decent wet, I think roughly in the area, of past
sightings:
ttp://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/silo/rain_maps.cgi?map=contours&variable=totals&area=aus&period=cyear&region=aus&time=latest

Andrew

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