Hi Friends,
I have just been entering the data for Thickbilled Grasswren in my database for my website: http: www.worldbidinfo.net.
I read how much the range of the species had declined due to the impact of grazing by cattle and sheep in the arid and semi-arid country, and that the bird has been extinct for many decades in New South Wales. Does anyone think it might be a good idea to reintroduce some birds of the modestus race into the Sturt National Park, given that with stock excluded for several decades, that park is now giving us an idea of what the Australian inland looked like before the start of stock grazing.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks,
John Penhallurick
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What is the chance of the species making its own way back into NSW? Birds in arid areas are hard to detect so may there be populations close enough to repopulate. Wasn’t an unusual Grasswren recorded there in the past few years? Was it the Thick-billed. I am not keen on translocations unless there is no possibility of natural recolonisation.
Greg Greg Clancy Coutts Crossing