Re: Australian parrots (was slide projector}

At 13:52 12/04/00 +1200, Moira wrote:

>I don't think I had ever grasped there was more than one type of
>rosella, and I had plain forgotten the Major Mitchell cockie.
>
>I was also unaware that the Galah was actually a cockatoo.
>
>I am very surprised though that there should be a parrot smaller than
>the budgie and would be interested to know what it is called.

hi Moira:

I'll check this in my bird book and let you know Monday.

>I note you say that wild budgies are all green. When we visited a
>wildlife park near Adelaide there was a budgie family nesting in a hole
>in a fencepost and the male at least I remember as yellow - perhaps only
>a half-wild bird?

I'd reckon they were escapees.  I doubt if wild budgies would breed as far
south as Adelaide, they're pretty much restricted to the central desert
regions I believe.  (I should check this though.)  I've never seen one in
the wild.

John.
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