Night Parrots in the news (but no sightings)

[L&L Knight <>]

Perhaps there will be a flush of vegetative growth in the areas where  
there have been overland flows, Andrew.  Alternatively, water seeping  
from the water channels may boost vegetation in the vicinity of the  
stream beds.
That said, I thought NPs tended to favour hummock grass environments -  
not all that common in the lower parts of the Lake Eyre Basin.
Regards, Laurie.

On 03/03/2009, at 12:13 PM, Andrew Taylor wrote:

> 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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