From: Oz Sailor-hstakenb@NO SPAM.bigpond.net.au (Oz Sailor)
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.animals,alt.binaries.pictures.artpics
Subject: Australian Endangered Species - AES_oz_036_Noisy_scrub_bird_-_atrichornis_clamosus.jpg
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:00:51 GMT

Noisy Scrub-bird (Atrichornis clamosus)


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The noisy scrubbird (Atrichornis clamosus) is a species of bird in the family Atrichornithidae. It is endemic to the coastal heaths of south-western Australia (east of Albany). The noisy scrubbird is one of Australia's rarest birds. It was presumed extinct until a population was discovered at Two Peoples Bay, east of Albany in Western Australia in the 1960s. Since then a recovery plan has been put into action. Populations of the bird have been translocated to nearby Bald Island, in Waychinicup National Park, as well as the Porongorup Ranges, where a bushfire had destroyed much of the population.