I don't disagree that it would be better to have video evidence and that it might be a side effect of breathing too much campfire smoke. But there really is a

I don't disagree that it would be better to have video evidence and that it might be a side effect of breathing too much campfire smoke. But there really is a lot of understudied country out there. Hopefully curious ornithologists and others will start to head out bush during the Dry. If it's a bush legend -- though I hardly put this on par with yowies and bunyips -- then the picture will probably become firmer either way. FWIW I'm Australian too. Darwinite turned New Yorker.