Yes Jeremy is correct over the years BARC has reviewed just 5 cases of Night
Parrot and one of these (The Minga Well sighting) was accepted with 7 votes
in favour and the others were considered at least plausible.
Case No. 012 Mt Bannerman, WA - 01-Dec-75
Case No. 042 Birdsville, QLD - 20-Oct-80
Case No. 188 Eulo Bore, QLD - 20-Oct-99
Case No. 506 Minga Well, WA - 12-Apr-05
Case No. 651 Mr Nullagine, QLD 02-Jun-10
Additionally I have heard of a few other apparent sightings too. To now
have confirmation is of course just outstanding, congratulations to John and
all involved.
Regards,
Tony
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Sent: Tuesday, 2 July 2013 9:51 AM
To: Alan Stuart
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Subject: Night parrot question
It also stated that the last sighting was 1979, but surely the 2006 sighting
should count, since it was accepted by BARC. I couldn't help but wonder
whether ignoring that sighting was an error, or related to the politics
surrounding that sighting and The Australian's position on development vs
environmental protection.
Jeremy
On 1 July 2013 17:19, Alan Stuart <> wrote:
> The article in The Weekend Australian stated that there were only 250
> night parrots in existence. How did somebody come up with that figure?
> Surely there is no way to make any estimate of the population
> currently. One hopes that this exciting discovery will lead to better
> knowledge about night parrots and eventually to get to a reasonable
> idea of how many of them exist. There might be one at the base of
> every second spinifex bush, for all we know (although none have ever
> been within any spinifex bushes that I've ever checked!)
>
> Alan Stuart
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