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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MJB" data-source="post: 3523604" data-attributes="member: 88928">We had to be content with identifying Eastern Ground Parrot near Strahan, Tasmania, by their sporadic calling from dense grassland that also held record numbers of Brown Snakes... :eek!:We visited the recommended area three times in dry spells between showers, heard nothing on the first visit (possibly because there was a steady morning breeze that raised the background noise quite a bit), heard two rather distant calls from different sites on the second visit (fitful light breeze late afternoon) and calls from four separate not-too-distant sites on the third (flat calm, partly overcast evening). We roughly estimated distances by triangulation of directions from two separate observers.:scribe:Each visit spanned about three hours, but we saw no movement except from other species using scrub patches. We familiarised ourselves by listening to a variety of recordings beforehand.MJB</blockquote>