A genuinely important birding issue for this list-server:
http://bird-o.com/2012/02/09/obp-no-emotional-fairwell-from-aussie-media/
It would be great if even a fraction of the time spent perusing this list could be spent tweeting or emailing your Federal member and our environment Ministers about how shameful this is.
Regards,
Simon.
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I think these pieces and the birdo article have the OBP world population numbers wrong (“dropped from just 35 to 21 birds”).
Isn’t 21 the number of adult OBPs seen around Melaleuca this year? Which is the same as last year and down from 23 the year before?
And this year’s offspring are now part of the world population – I think I heard they’d banded 10 and hopefully there are a few more.
Plus there might be some breeding elsewhere. Or do the recovery people think there are none left apart from the surrounds of Melaleuca? You’d need a lot of helicopter time I’d have thought to check out all the suitable habitat in the SW wilderness area. I guess the proportion of unbanded wintering birds gives you an idea of what if any breeding is happening elsewhere.
Definitely agree with Simon about letting your MP know.
Andrew
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