What other achievements in the last 2-3 decades are there?
Interested to know what people think other avian achievements (in Australia)
that may compare.
Cheers,
Charles Hunter
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> On 29 Aug 2015, at 6:29 pm, martin cachard <> wrote:
>
> 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.
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> trinity beach.
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> cairns.
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>> To:
>> From:
>> 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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