Well said, Penny.
All I can add to what you have said is that, in my opinion, John Young's
finding and documentation of the Night Parrot is perhaps THE Australian avian
achievement of the decade!!
martin cachard.
trinity beach.
cairns.
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> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 18:18:12 +1000
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] How has the Night Parrot survived in south-west
> Queensland?
>
> I was on a tour led by John Young in 2007, and he then told us about his
> plans to concentrate on a particular area in Queensland where he had
> heard of Night Parrots being present in the past, and where he felt he
> was most likely to find them. He intended to spend as much time as
> possible over at least 5 years out there, sitting on "jump ups" in the
> chilly dark (frosty out there mid year) and just listening.
>
> So I was not surprised when I read that he had succeeded. Very few
> people would have the dedication, knowledge, understanding of the bush
> and freedom to spend that much time sitting out there in the dark in the
> hope of hearing a Night Parrot. He is an amazing person and should get
> every recognition for his achievement. The fact that others are now
> undertaking the scientific studies is irrelevant. In my opinion he is
> not the person for that work, he has other things that he is more
> qualified to do, like find rare birds in the first place!
>
> It was the Australian avian achievement of 2014.
>
> Penny Drake-Brockman
> Gloucester NSW
>
>
>
> > You might want to change the length of John Young’s Night Parrot search
> > from 6 years as you wrote in your blog, to 15 years. I was fortunate enough
> > to hear Mr. Young talk about the Night Parrot in Melbourne this past March
> > and he stated that he had searched for 15 years.
> >
> > I actively use social media and can assure you that John is very rarely on
> > Facebook at all. What comments he may have made on other’s posts in which
> > he was tagged, certainly should not be called... “taking to social media to
> > distance himself from the project.” John has not “taken” to anything. You
> > presented several quotes from John which are taken out of context and used
> > in your blog. I am a Facebook friend of John’s and have just searched up
> > and down his timeline and cannot find those quotes.
> >
> > In my opinion, it seems that your blog is trying to distance the project
> > from John Young, rather than visa versa. These are just my opinions.
> >
> > R. Bruce Richardson
> > Torquay, VIC
> >
> >
> > On Aug 29, 2015, at 9:01 AM, Greg Roberts <>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I have a news story and feature published in today's edition of The Weekend
> >> Australian which explores why the parrot has managed to hang on at the site
> >> in south-west Queensland where it is presently being studied, and looks at
> >> measures to control feral cats. Most of this material is behind the paper's
> >> paywall; the transcript can be read in the following blog post:
> >>
> >> http://sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/night-parrot-news_29.html
> >>
> >> If that link doesn't work, try this:
> >>
> >> *http://tinyurl.com/nd8wg3z <http://tinyurl.com/nd8wg3z>*
> >>
> >>
> >> Greg Roberts
> >> http://sunshinecoastbirds.blogspot.com.au/
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