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After another jolting ride along an undulating, sandy path, we set out up the west slope at 11:15 p.m., trudging through the tussocks and powdery dark ash.

“It could be big tussocks just like a couple of years ago, and it could be a brutal run, you know, with the rolling hills and possibly barren tundra.”

They sailed ahead and by three o’clock could make out the faint patches of green tussock grass that grew among the snowy rocks.

It revealed that prime night parrot habitat in Queensland consisted of areas of tussock grass called triodia that had been long untouched by fire, and close to water sources and seed-rich floodplains.

The man was navigating off-piste when he slipped in tussocks of grass.