What is the chance of the species making its own way back into NSW? Birds
in arid areas are hard to detect so may there be populations close enough to
repopulate. Wasn't an unusual Grasswren recorded there in the past few
years? Was it the Thick-billed. I am not keen on translocations unless
there is no possibility of natural recolonisation.
Greg
Greg Clancy
Coutts Crossing
-----Original Message-----
From: John Penhallurick
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 7:26 PM
To: 'Birding-aus'
Subject: Sturt National Park
Hi Friends,
I have just been entering the data for Thickbilled Grasswren in my database
for my website: http: www.worldbidinfo.net.
I read how much the range of the species had declined due to the impact of
grazing by cattle and sheep in the arid and semi-arid country, and that the
bird has been extinct for many decades in New South Wales. Does anyone
think it might be a good idea to reintroduce some birds of the modestus race
into the Sturt National Park, given that with stock excluded for several
decades, that park is now giving us an idea of what the Australian inland
looked like before the start of stock grazing.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks,
John Penhallurick
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