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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mjh73" data-source="post: 1979559" data-attributes="member: 82187">Re insurance population: I think they thought they had that, not withstanding some problems with PCD a few years back. The suspected inbreeding depression, and further investigation into how heterozygous the captive population is is a recent development.Re satelite transmitters: They are too big. This is a tiny parrot, and there is some suspicion that the migration they undertake is at the limit of their physiological capability anyway. Radio tagging is more likely to be feasible - they have been radio tagged on the breeding grounds before. I suggested this to a member of the recovery team at a presentation in the winter and, while he agreed, the problem with radio tags is you still need to have a huge personnel resource in the field to find and track the very small number of birds, dispersed widely. That costs money (and needs people interested in doing it) and the available budgets and resources are constrained. Re winter feeding: This was introduced this winter! The problem though comes back to finding where the birds are during the winter and sadly very few were positively located as far as I am aware.</blockquote>