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From: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Night Parrot
Message-ID: <9034@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 12 Nov 90 23:14:18 GMT
References: <1990Nov7.162529.15156@zoo.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1990Nov7.162529.15156@zoo.toronto.edu> rising@zoo.toronto.edu (Jim Rising) writes:
>I know nothing about Australian birds, but when I first saw this 
>posting on the Night Parrot, I looked it up in my Slater Guide. 
>It says: "...rare nomad in spinifex, samphire and bluebush plains
>or rocky hillsides in arid interion; ... ; recent sightings in
>Lake Eyre Bason."  So apparently it wasn't thought to be extinct.

   I heard about it on "As It Happens."  Not necessarily the best
source of info about birds, but ...  They referred to it there
as the 'big foot' of parrots.  Lots of sightings, but none really
confirmed.  There was a large cash prize available for a verifiable
sighting which had been unclaimed in over 30 years.




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