Find Zebra finches to find Night parrots
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 Evidence of ‘night parrot’, one of world’s rarest birds, found in Australia Picture released by Australian Wildlife Conservancy on September 14, 2017 shows a feather from a …
Museum reference collections are invaluable for research
A 30-year cold case involving an egg and the mysterious Night Parrot by Leo Joseph, Jeremy Austin And Penny Olsen, The Conversation OCTOBER 20, 2016 The egg collected in the …
Night vision not a Night parrot strong suit
Mysterious Australian Night Parrots may not see in the dead of night By Flinders University Mysterious Australian Night Parrots in natural environment. Credit: Steve Murphy, Charles Darwin University. Australia’s most …
The Night parrot story is just getting murkier and murkier.
Night parrot research labelled ‘fake news’ by experts after release of damning report ABC’s Background Briefing Exclusive by Ann Jones, Benjamin Sveen, and David Lewis PHOTO: John Young’s photo of a night parrot in …
Night parrot news – read all about it
The night parrot: A mystery as old as our country ABC Science By Ann Jones for The Chase PHOTO: The moon hangs above the Birriliburu protected area in remote Western Australia.(ABC Science: Ann Jones) …
Innuendo and birdwatching; a not-so-rare double
Sexual innuendo linked with bird-names is not too hard to find. Tits and shags are all too obvious and couple this with a largely male pursuit, add in lashings of post-adolescent humour and the article here is an almost inevitable consequence. I was sent this article by someone some time ago and I post it here in case someone finds it titillating or perhaps provocative of a behind-the-hands snigger.
What is it with night parrots, John Young and hanky-panky?
John Young brought home the holy grail of Australian bird-watching – he found night parrots. But then the story gets murky. Penny Olsen’s book Nigh Parrot gives the detail that the keenest of birders want, the story behind every sighting ever made right up to today’s conservation efforts for the known populations and the work underway to establish if there are more. This Audubon Society magazine article gives the summary that almost every other birder wants. Why does it have to be this way? As the poet James Elroy Flecker observed, ‘men are unwise and curiously planned’.
The saga of the Kalkadoon – where Common Loudmouths go to Mt Isa and Boodjamulla
The Twitchathon team, the Common Loudmouths, went north for a seven tick trip. . Philip was with us in spirit and it was his research that enabled our success. It was not, however, as simple as we had hoped. The Kalka-bloody-doon grasswren was the holdout and while we enjoyed the chase, most of the time at least, we would have enjoyed Philip’s presence more.
In which there is a report on a trip, from Broome to Melbourne, with incident
Images can be fixed photographically or they can be fixed mentally. A particularly magnificent image can stay within the neural circuits, to be recalled at will. One such image was created on this trip.
Night parrot stories
Night parrot stories is a film (see it on SBS at 8.30 pm on Christmas Eve, 2017) , a Facebook page and treasure troves of tales in the minds of many birders in this wide brown land. Both adjectives apply, as the distribution of these birds has opened up considerably since their rediscovery in the Diamantina and where they are found is typically very very brown.