Austrlian birding friends. I am research more around the Night Parrot. And I
find this on the www.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/twitchers-cry-foul-in-case-of-the-deceased-parrot/2007/06/22/1182019367467.html
It is funny no?
Why ?
Well the Age writer has copied same ideas - 'Tasmanian Tiger' and 'Budgie'
from Brisbane Times. 'Dubbed the Tasmanian tiger of the skies, this small,
drab, budgerigar-like bird has fascinated scientists' Naughty naughty! Ha ha ha
And more even funny - Birds Australia keep this record secret to hide it from
birdwatchers 'hunting the bird down.'
But at 2007 they told us all when dead bird found in Queensland like chicken
with no head:
Mike Weston, research and conservation manager at Birds Australia, says the
"incredible secrecy" prevented a concerted inquiry that might have yielded
clues to the birds' habits.
"The way it was handled was most disappointing."
Ha ha ha - I translate from www it is called 'hypocpacy' No?
If may be proper bird watcher go to look and see - may be now we now no more
about the Night Parrot? NO? May be too many chickens run with no heads and
hiding at their desk?
Richard
Twitchers cry foul in case of the deceased parrot
John Huxley | June 23, 2007
THE park ranger Robert "Shorty" Cupitt was repairing a section of track in a
remote part of Diamantina National Park, Queensland, when the blade of his
grader exposed the headless corpse of a bird he could not immediately identify.
The yellow-bellied bird, which appeared to have flown into a nearby barbed-wire
fence and had been decapitated, was eventually passed to experts at Queensland
Museum. They identified it as a juvenile night parrot. The ultimate, real-life
dead parrot.
Dubbed the Tasmanian tiger of the skies, this small, drab, budgerigar-like bird
has fascinated scientists, frustrated twitchers and inspired artists, poets and
novelists for more than a century. Elusive and enigmatic, the night parrot
appears to have been relatively common in central Australia in the 19th
century. But numbers mysteriously declined, and it was declared extinct by some
experts as long ago as 1915.
Such is the scientific significance of Shorty Cupitt's find last September -
only the second of its kind in more than a century (see panel) - that it should
have been a cause for international celebration, immediate investigation and a
concerted search for live birds.
Walter Boles, of the Australian Museum in Sydney, who has found only one dead
bird in 20 years of searching, says of the find: "It's an extraordinary event,
which should have been followed up immediately."
The birds may have flown. But at least now, after months of apparent inactivity
and acrimony, a nationwide coalition of experts and enthusiasts has been set up
to look for more birds - live ones.
The founders of the National Night Parrot Network, which includes the
Australian Wildlife Conservancy, described it as part research sharing group,
part rapid response team, ready to climb into a four-wheel-drive or an aircraft
and head into the desert on reports of a sighting.
Several frustrated birding experts blame the initial delay in chasing the "lead
of a lifetime" on a decision by the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency,
which administers the parks, to suppress news of the find. Steve Wilson, a
co-founder of the network who works for Desert Channels Queensland, describes
the agency's behaviour in not sharing details as paranoid.
Mike Weston, research and conservation manager at Birds Australia, says the
"incredible secrecy" prevented a concerted inquiry that might have yielded
clues to the birds' habits.
"The way it was handled was most disappointing."
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