Do any of the birds get to visit their relatives or at least the South Island?

[Elf]

Elf finds a piece of paper with Norfolk Parakeet information From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia that shows the Norfolk Parakeet is
on Norfolk Island, Australia and Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Cyanoramphus cookii
(Gray, 1859)
The Norfolk Parakeet (Cyanoramphus cookii), also called Tasman Parakeet,[2]
Norfolk Island Green Parrot or Norfolk Island Red-crowned Parakeet, is a
species of parrot in the Psittaculidae family. It is endemic to Norfolk
Island (located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia in the
Tasman Sea). The species was once considered a subspecies of the Red-fronted
Parakeet of New Zealand. The name Tasman Parakeet[2] is used by Christidis
and Boles on the argument that this species and the Lord Howe Red-crowned
Parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae subflavescens) are probably a single
species for which they use biogeographical arguments. Tasman is used for
other species with the same distribution and they propose that name for that
reason. However, the latter subspecies was not included in the genus wide
phylogenetic reconstruction using DNA sequences, and the lumping of the
species should be considered tentative.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and
plantations. It is threatened by habitat loss.

This species of parakeet was down to only 4 breeding females and 28-33 males
in 1994, but its population has since rebounded to 200-300 birds. It is only
found in Norfolk Island National Park and the surrounding area.

New Zealand huh? Do any of the birds get to visit their relatives or at
least the South Island?

-- Hugs
Elf
Carrier of a Tickle Sword, long bow, and magic.
The magic is in Meadow and Dream Tree.

[Uglav]

No. Don't know of it

[Elf]

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Sad, hopefully they will get to drop by and get reacquainted with the
animals living there now.
That is one thing interesting about archaeology finding parts of creatures
that are where one would not expect to find them. In the US some trading
trails are apparently 3,000 or more miles long as shown by trade goods. At
one time it was believed the native Americans were the first people here now
there have been a number of sites, the most recent one in the state of
Georgia, showing there were people here before the native Americans. People
had suspected it for decades before some proof was found and at one point
native Americans were fighting to keep scientists out of one site. It
became a moot point when someone dropped tons of very large boulders on the
site destroying its usefulness. Archaeologists had been saying that the
proof of people being in the Americas before the native Americans would have
to come from work in Mexico then but apparently they were living on our east
coast as well.
Post doctoral and other archaeologists from the local area are working on a
team now diving in the Aucilla River in Florida, one state over from
Georgia, excavating fossil evidence of 14,000 year old early humans. It
will be interesting to see what they find because the cold water preserves
things much better than they are on land.
The Texas A&M department of Underwater Archaeology has been doing work in
salt water for years, at least since the 1980s, so underwater archaeology is
not new. Are you following underwater work or just that on land?
Elf pictures a squirrel with wet fur standing in the sun drying out as
autumn comes along with the last warm sunny days that far south.