The article in The Weekend Australian stated that there were only 250 night parrots in existence. How did somebody come up with that figure? Surely there is no way to make any estimate of the population currently. One hopes that this exciting discovery will lead to better knowledge about night parrots and eventually to get to a reasonable idea of how many of them exist. There might be one at the base of every second spinifex bush, for all we know (although none have ever been within any spinifex bushes that I’ve ever checked!)
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Yes Jeremy is correct over the years BARC has reviewed just 5 cases of Night Parrot and one of these (The Minga Well sighting) was accepted with 7 votes in favour and the others were considered at least plausible.
Case No. 012 Mt Bannerman, WA – 01-Dec-75 Case No. 042 Birdsville, QLD – 20-Oct-80 Case No. 188 Eulo Bore, QLD – 20-Oct-99 Case No. 506 Minga Well, WA – 12-Apr-05 Case No. 651 Mr Nullagine, QLD 02-Jun-10
Additionally I have heard of a few other apparent sightings too. To now have confirmation is of course just outstanding, congratulations to John and all involved.
Regards, Tony
Oops, I mean the 2005 sighting, at Minga Well.
Jeremy
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It also stated that the last sighting was 1979, but surely the 2006 sighting should count, since it was accepted by BARC. I couldn’t help but wonder whether ignoring that sighting was an error, or related to the politics surrounding that sighting and The Australian’s position on development vs environmental protection.
Jeremy
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