{"id":95180,"date":"2017-03-23T02:38:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T06:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=95180"},"modified":"2017-03-23T02:38:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T06:38:23","slug":"native-bird-spotted-in-australian-state-for-1st-time-in-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/23\/native-bird-spotted-in-australian-state-for-1st-time-in-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Native bird spotted in Australian state for 1st time in 100 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_95181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95181\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pezoporus_occidentalis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95181\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Pezoporus_occidentalis.jpg\" alt=\"A group of four birdwatchers have spotted an Australian night parrot, once thought extinct, for the first time in a century. (Photo by Martin Thompson [Public domain])\" width=\"280\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of four birdwatchers have spotted an Australian night parrot, once thought extinct, for the first time in a century. (Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3APezoporus_occidentalis.jpg\"> Martin Thompson [Public domain]<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>SYDNEY\u2014A group of four birdwatchers have spotted an Australian night parrot, once thought extinct, for the first time in a century.<\/p>\n<p>The sighting of the night parrot, a small nocturnal bird native to Australia, came three years after the bird was declared extinct and 2,000 kilometers from where it was first rediscovered in Western Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>The group of four men, Bruce Greatwich, Adrian Boyle, Nigel Jackett and George Swann, travelled to a habitat in the outback of Western Australia (WA) that they identified as a potential spotting place for the parrot via detailed aerial maps.<\/p>\n<p>The four men spent a night camping out at the spot they had identified, listening out for the distinctive calls of the parrot.<\/p>\n<p>Greatwich managed to take a photo of the parrot, believed to be one of the few photos of the bird in existence.<\/p>\n<p>The photo confirmed that it was the first confirmed sighting of a night parrot in WA in almost 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>Allan Burbidge, chair of the Night Parrot Recovery Team, said the sighting expanded the known range of the bird by thousands of kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having a photograph now, being absolutely certain (about the birds&#8217; presence), hopefully our regulators will be able to use that,&#8221; Burbidge said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY\u2014A group of four birdwatchers have spotted an Australian night parrot, once thought extinct, for the first time in a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":95181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[17000],"class_list":["post-95180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-australian-night-parrot","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}