G'day Brian, Steve, Anthea, Uncle Tom Cobbley and all.
Down here on the Mornington Penninsula we are getting
Scaley-Breasted Lorikeets, (about 40 or so?)
Rainbow's, (about 20) Purple Crowned???? (6 so far?)
I'm sure they are PC's ????? And Green's? (3 today?)
anyone want to have a stab at what is happening? this
is most unusual for my neck of the land? we get here
Rainbow's and the occasional Scaley Breasted but not
the others and in this volume to all?
Galah's are hanging upside down as well Tony?
Brian Fleming <> wrote:
wrote:
G'day all
My father and I observed a Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
in the company of several Rainbow Lorikeets in
Heidelberg Heights (northern suburban Melbourne on
Sunday 12th March.)
The Victorian bird atlas reports small populations
in a few bayside suburbs.
Can any Melbourne folk provide up to date information
on the distribution and status of Scaly-breasted
Lorikeets in Melbourne.
And are the Rainbow Lorikeets in Melbourne thought to
be derived naturally from other Victorian populations
or are they the result of escaped cage birds?
Cheers
Steve
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Steve Clark
45 Carmichael Street, Hamilton, Victoria, 3300
www.ansonic.com.au/clarks/sw_birds.htm
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In thee original RAOU Aus Bird Atlas, there was a note
that there was an established feral population of
Scalybreasted 'keets at Yallambie, on the Plenty River
(just north of Lower Plenty Rd). I have often seen
them
near the then Yallambie, now re-named Streeton Views
Primary School over the years. A few weeks ago(in
January I think) I saw some at Latrobe Uni.Wildlife
Reserve. Reserve staff tell me that they have recently
become very common and widespread in the district.
I think the Rainbow Lorikeet increase is natural, but
the presence of small colonies of escapes at Zoo etc.
may well have encouraged visiting flocks to stay and
settle down - decoy effect. In 1975 there was one pair
of Rainbows at Furness Park, Blackburn, and I was very
surprised to see them. They were not a melbourne bird
at all back then. At that time I didn't expect them
anywhere west of Bairnsdale.
Anthea Fleming in Ivanhoe (Vic)
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