re “Night Parrot interview this morning”

By Birding-Aus, on July 3rd, 2013

Even if this site is considered too sensitive to allow public access why is John Young refusing to provide recording of call? How can we protect this bird if we don’t know the extent of its range and particular habitat requirements. Proper management which may involve restricted access and restrictions on use of playback at known localities [such as with Noisy Scrub-bird] would be a more realistic option. I note in a similar case with the rediscovery of Jerdon’s Courser in southern India 1986- also a cryptic nocturnal species, the site was secured and surrounding land-holders issued with playback devices with the recorded call to assist in surveys. This information has led to the establishment of wildlife reserves and staved off a number of major developments. No doubt John has best of intentions but hope for sake of everyone and the Parrot he doesn’t take his secret to the grave. ===============================

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peter

July 4, 2013 at 9:24 am

I don’t know if just knowing the call will cause too many problems compared to having access to it for playback.

But I do wonder if speculation about what the call could be used for is premature. In the RN interview, John only mentioned one recording, which was made in 2007 from 1.5km away. Does anyone know if he managed to get more?

If not then this one recording might be very faint compared to the background noise, nothing like the clarity we’ve come to expect as normal from the species recordings on the BOCA CDs, etc.

Peter Shute

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