Another Recent Specimen of the Night Parrot Pezoporus occidentalis from Western Queensland

Abstract

A headless specimen of the Night Parrot Pezoporus occidentalis was found under a barbed-wire fence in Diamantina National Park, western Queensland, in September 2006. The habitat in the vicinity was a low rise of bare gibber with patches of sparse, low shrubs and grasses, near a slight drainage depression lined with low Gidgee Acacia cambagei, but the Parrot may have been commuting to or from distant water when it struck the fence.