Western Ground Parrot, species or subspecies?

[Frank O'Connor <>]

Steve Potter wrote :
>How long is a piece of string....
>
>Try that question with Albatrosses, Grasswrens, and Crimson
Rosella...

Perhaps Steve has not read the
Wingspan article.  The DNA shows that Western Ground Parrot is as
different to the "Eastern" Ground Parrot (including the SA
specimens) as Western Thornbill is to Buff-rumped Thornbill.  I
don't think it is in the paper, but Western and Eastern Yellow Robins are
similar I believe.  The distance is far more than the
albatross.

One should never jest (or cast uneducated doubt) about matters
such as this, with a species so precariously on the brink.  At its
present rate of decline, it will be extinct in a decade, conceivably in
as little as five years.

In theory it should not matter whether it is a species or a sub species,
certainly for WA funding, but we all know that it can be a
factor.

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