As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Thursday, 29 November 2018

Night parrot's Kimberley location under wraps after rare bird snapped for just the second time



Posted Fri at 10:36pm
The night parrot has been dubbed one of the world's most mysterious birds.
It is endangered and known to exist in very small numbers in Western Queensland.
But in October, Indigenous rangers in Western Australia's Kimberley region captured the second-known photo of the bird in the Great Sandy Desert in just over a year.
Paruku ranger coordinator Jamie Brown said they were keeping the exact location of their discovery a secret, in order to protect the species.
"We're keeping it under the mat sort of thing … because it was so popular and everyone's looking for it, we were just a bit frightened of a big wave of people just coming in and just looking everywhere and trying to find it," he said.

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