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June 24, 2007
Another Night Parrot Corpse Gives Hope of Its Existence
THE park ranger Robert "Shorty" Cupitt was repairing a section of track in a remote part of Diamantina National Park, Queensland, when the blade of his grader exposed the headless corpse of a bird he could not immediately identify.
The yellow-bellied bird, which appeared to have flown into a nearby barbed-wire fence and had been decapitated, was eventually passed to experts at Queensland Museum. They identified it as a juvenile night parrot. The ultimate, real-life dead parrot.
Click Here for The Brisbane Times Article
Posted by Surfbirds at June 24, 2007 5:12 AM
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