When Patrick Webster heard about purported sightings of the rare buff-breasted button-quail, he followed the clues in a 100-year-old diary to come to a surprising conclusion.
So in 2019, when Patrick Webster, a Queensland University of Technology researcher, read about 1985 sightings of the bird west of Cairns, he decided to visit the region.
Mr Webster was keen to learn about the bird's ecology, including what it eats, where it lives and how best to approach its conservation.But after two years of study, and delving into the work of researchers who'd come before him, he made a startling discovery. In 1922, Mr McLennan spent 72 days on the Cape York Peninsula, and detected 129 buff-breasted button-quails in the process.
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