One difficulty might be that it is illegal to take a dog into National
Park areas. I seem to recall that Gould and others claimed that a
Ground Parrot is as strongly scented to a gun-dog as a quail, so it
might well be practicable to train a dog, and then try in the inland..
A story I was told was that a riding-camel made the ideal mobile
observation platform for Night Parrots. A camel's feet are silent on
sandy country, so it is not likely to disturb the parrot till it
actually comes up against the Triodia clumps. The observer is up above
the tussocks and Saltbush, and the camel could carry two observers
keeping a look-out in all directions for any parrots that flew off. One
difficulty would be that one cannot use binoculars on board an animal -
however quietly an old horse stands, it still breathes, and the movement
is enough to disturb the image; I expect a camel would be just as bad.
Still a camel-mounted search travelling in line abreast might be successful.
Anthea Fleming
On 6/06/2012 3:59 PM, Dion Hobcroft wrote:
I have often wondered why no-one has trained a dog to search for Night
Parrot. Get them tracking Ground Parrots and then move to the desert with a
muzzle (to avoid eating 1080 baits and Night Parrots). Our Kiwi friends use
this strategy successfully for finding Kakapo.
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