Interesting discussion. It's probably hard to compare achievements like that,
and Laurie's example of clearing Macquarie Island of ferals, and perhaps
Gould's Birds of Australia, with finding a Night Parrot population.
While all of them required good planning, funding, persistence and
determination, the first three only required enough of those things to
guarantee success. John's task had a huge chance of failure the whole way, no
matter how much he put into it. Lots of others have tried and failed.
Lots of birders would know what it feels like staking out a cryptic species.
You sit there for hours, thinking about the other birds you could be seeing
right now, knowing you might see what you came for at any moment, or wait that
long again and go home having seen nothing at all.
Peter Shute
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> On 29 Aug 2015, at 11:30 pm, Charles <> wrote:
>
> Yes, good call.
>
> Any others?
>
> Cheers,
> Charles Hunter
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>> On 29 Aug 2015, at 9:58 pm, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
>>
>> Well how about HANZAB?
>>
>> Philip
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
>> Charles
>> Sent: Saturday, 29 August 2015 7:47 PM
>> To: martin cachard
>> Cc:
>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] How has the Night Parrot survived in south-west
>> Queensland?
>>
>> 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
>> +61 402 907 577
>>
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