RE: Australian parrots
- To: "m*@ucdavis.edu"
- Subject: RE: Australian parrots
- From: T* D*
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:00:42 +1200
>From what I have read yellow budgies can occasionally occur as natural
sports in flocks of green budgies, just as black sheep can sometimes occur
in flocks of white sheep.
Tim Dutton
"Raindrops", Main Road North, Kaitoke, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
(Latitude 41? 5' South, Longitude 175? 10' East)
-----Original Message-----
From: Julius & Beverly Elischer [SMTP:elischer@iinet.net.au]
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 1:12 PM
To: johna@mech.eng.usyd.edu.au
Cc: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re: Australian parrots (was slide projector}
John Atkinson wrote:
> >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.
John, we lived on a farm about 30 miles (say 50 k) north-west of Griffith,
N.S.W. We had flocks of green budgies arriving each Spring to nest in the
hollows of our box trees. We used to look forward to them. Very cute!
Beverly
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