Night Parrots of the past

[brian fleming <>]

'Myrlumbing'  is given as a 'native name' for the Night Parrot in early 
sources (?Gould, I'm too tired to go and check his /Handbook/ just now) 
and in (I think) Cayley's /'What Bird is That?/'
I don't know of any early source for the call as a whistle though.
For many years the Barking Owl's scream was attributed to the Powerful Owl.

Anthea Fleming

On 22/07/2013 6:28 PM, Chris Lloyd wrote:
> While looking for something else I came across this article in the Sydney
> Morning Herald in 26th January 1935.
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> "But the cry of the powerful owl which the bushland knows as the screecher,
> is the voice of a nightmare Its loud weird screeches break abruptly from the
> dense timber often rising to an alarming ear splitting shriek. Far inland
> the peculiar whistling call of the myrlumbing or night parrot startles the
> camper and has caused many a drovers mob to break away in sudden panic."
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> Leaving aside the possible mis-identification of the Barking Owl, the
> implication is that Night Parrots may have been more common once. or
> mis-identified as well.
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> Chris Lloyd
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