Sunday, January 30, 2022

CLICKABLE INDEX for WESTERN GROUND PARROT HISTORY BLOG

 

The blog covers the years of European knowledge of the Western Ground Parrot and some early knowledge of the Eastern Ground Parrot prior to 2009. The postings in the blog were random in sequence. The Index lists the postings by category and each posting title is linked to the posting. Click for quick access. A few of the postings are listed in two of the categories. Note that it is also possible to use the search function (top left) to retrieve particular postings.

The categories are Ecology, Museum Specimens, Physical Description and Image, Conservation and Surveys and Study.

 

ECOLOGY

Western Ground Parrot

 

Wongan Hills – Ground parrots were there

 

Mr F. Lawson Whitlock

 

Finding Western Ground Parrot nests

 

First feeding record February 1983

 

Nest with ground parrot feathers

 

Fitzgerald – do Western Ground Parrots actually live there?

 

Detecting ground parrots by their call

 

Radio tracking Part 2

 

Radio tracking Part 3 Flushing and feeding

 

Food choices and possible explanation

 

Plants and vegetation of Ground Parrot habitat

 

Vegetation study and survey further afield 1989

 

Plant families recorded in 1988/89 study site

 

Western Ground Parrots north of Perth

 

More accounts of possible sightings north of Perth

 

Ground Parrots west of Albany

 

Nest search at Waychinicup 2001 – coverage and distribution

 

Nest search at Waychinicup 2001: call data

 

Eastern Ground Parrot (and general)

 

Green ground parrot

 

Early Eastern Ground Parrot observations

 

1918 photo in the wild

 

Horace Wheelwright on the swamp parrot

 

Blue underwing plumage and courtship display

 

Breeding problem for ground parrots

 

Losing habitat in South Australia

 

Queensland ground parrot study

 

Calling behavior of ground parrots in Queensland

 

Home range of Eastern Ground Parrots

 

Nests and nesting (of Eastern Ground Parrots)

 

Food, Eastern Ground Parrot, Victoria

 

Looking back and eastwards

 

Breeding observations Eastern Ground Parrot,Victoria

 

MUSEUM SPECIMENS

Western Australian Museum specimens showing gender differences

 

Western Ground Parrots in the Lord Braybrooke collection

 

Western Ground Parrots in the British Museum Catalogue 1891

 

Nestlings from the vicinity of Wongan Hills

 

Nestling labels

 

Evidence that Gilbert collected the Wongan Hills chicks

 

Swan River specimen

 

Western Ground Parrots in the Australian Museum

 

Australian Museum Western Ground Parrots

 

George Masters

 

Location of John Gould’s collection of Australian birds

 

Gould specimens in Philadelphia

 

C19 nestling specimens from different clutches

 

False trail 1839

 

Why there are no authentic Ground Parrot specimens from Perth

 

South Australian ground parrot specimen from SA Museum

 

Another South Australian ground parrot Liverpool Museum

 

Western Ground Parrots at Audley End House

 

Ground parrot collection in the American Museum of Natural History New York

 

Ground parrot specimens in Sweden

 


PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION and IMAGE

 

Blue underwing plumage and courtship display

 

Underwing plumage

 

WA Museum specimens showing external gender difference

 

Western Ground Parrot eggs

 

Description of eggs

 

Iris colour and age determination

 

An Eastern Ground Parrot of Cooloola

 

Capture

 

Green ground parrot

 

From John Gould 1848

 

1918 Photo in the wild

 

La Billardiere’s ground parrot

 

Western Ground Parrot entry in WA’s first bird book

 

First colour photos of the Western Ground Parrot 1988

 

CONSERVATION

First Western Ground Parrot information brochure

 

First information brochure side two

 

Conservation statement

 

Farms or conservation?

 

Learning about ground parrot census by listening

 

Unsuccessful survey and funding knock back

 

Advice about census methods

 

Awareness raising

 

RAOU survey 1983

 

Explanations

 

A helpful advertisement

 

A glimmer of hope

 

Letter to the editor

 

A good summary

 

Politicians express interest

 

Land release concern revisited

 

Fitzgerald land use dilemma

 

Ken Newbey’s vegetation report

 

Task force

 

Land release deferral

 

Land release deferred

 

A recovery plan for the ground parrot in WesternAustralia

 

Conservation of the ground parrot in WesternAustralia 1992

 

Losing habitat in South Australia

 

SURVEYS and STUDY

Many names

 

Western Ground Parrot records from 1842 to 1983

 

Mr F. Lawson Whitlock

 

Western Ground Parrots in the Australian Museum

 

Western Ground Parrots west of Albany

 

Detecting ground parrots by their call

 

Historic tape recording

 

Learning about ground parrot census by listening

 

Advice about census methods

 

First successful listening session

 

RAOU survey 1983

 

Fitzgerald – do Western Ground Parrots actually live there?

 

Ground parrot surveying gets underway in the Fitzgerald

 

Research in the pipeline

 

Ground parrot project 1984

 

First Western Ground Parrot field work

 

Report of ground parrot survey in Western Australia 1984

 

Ground parrot map from Australian Bird Atlas 1984

 

Fitzgerald Survey 1985 to 1987

 

Wongan Hills – Ground parrots were there

 

A search north of Perth

 

Surveying the northern sandplain

 

How to catch a Western Ground Parrot?

 

First study of Western Ground Parrot ecology

 

Capture

 

Radio-tracking part one

 

Survey for Western Ground Parrots at Waychinicup1998

 

Nest search at Waychinicup 2001: listening points

 

Roost sites territory and number of birds

 

A nestling and a missed opportunity (Waychinicup)

 

Locally extinct? (Waychinicup)

 

Survey experience 2003