Talk:Rock parrot

news report
Maybe of interest to editors http://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/about-town/pet-trade-put-paid-to-rottos-pretty-parrots-20140201-31tf7.html Gnangarra 00:22, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Queries
Hey Cas, this is developing well, if that helps morale, better than a C :) there is one one quibbling query, so far: the article says avoids "farmland", which I would not expect to occur at a coastline, and wonder if pastoralist activity is what they are avoiding. In fact, I wondered after reading Gilbert, if they started favouring rocks and cliffs to avoid any of us egg-thieving humans. cygnis insignis 05:31, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Dunno - no source mentions that, just that they are seldom found in it. But then again, how much farmland goes down to the high-water mark.....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 06:24, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Forshaw mentions the bedraggled appearance when they are wet, lacking the waterproofing of other ocean side birds, and that they appear darker [which maintains camouflage on wet granite, it seems to me]. He also dismisses a sighting inland, which he personally investigated, but if HANZAB mentions it then I guess they were not persuaded. Shall I bring that work to the table? ~ cygnis insignis 13:19, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
 * My copy of Forshaw is packed away at present. Bedraggled appearance yes definitely. Not sure about the other one. Which sighting was it? Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:58, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Forshaw mentions a pers comm from W. B. Alexander in Mathew's Birds of Australia this page, at the "Hampden Tableland" [ Hampton Tableland], but dismisses it because there was no further record [I don't know why Forshaw doubts it ever was present there].
 * Mathew's also notes former abundance at Princess Royal Harbour and at Margaret River, with their disappearance c. 1900s attributed to cats. Nice to see this article get expanded and so on, hope this helps. ~ cygnis insignis 07:19, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

bird call sounds
include sound bites?.. 2600:1017:B82A:79E3:0:55:4235:AE01 (talk) 18:36, 11 January 2024 (UTC)