Ecologist Julian Reid and filmmaker Rob Nugent from the Australian National University are travelling Outback Australia in search of evidence of the elusive Night Parrot for their documentary.
Only a handful of sightings have been recorded in the last century.
"I like the mystery of the bird, how it lives only an inferred existence," Rob Nugent recently told ABC Radio.
"It's story also speaks to extinctions, the idea that this animal may or may not exist, and we live in an age when loss is accepted."
In 2012 the night parrot was declared one of the world's five most mysterious birds by the Smithsonian Institute in the United States.
The last specimen to be handed in, a decapitated bird, was found in 2006 by a grader driver in the Diamantina Lakes National Park.
You can read about their trip and share your own stories on their Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/NightParrotStories
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