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Superb parrots?

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Subject: Superb parrots?
From: "Peter Ewin" <>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:31:49 +1000
Ralph,
The one question I would ask is "What size were they in relation to any other parrot you do know?" If they were bigger, and particularly longer-tailed than an Eastern Rosella (I am assuming that you have identified an ER), then I would say Superb Parrot would be right. If not, give me a yell and I will think some more. You are certainly in the right area, as they breed along the Murrumbidgee to the south and west of Ganmain.
Cheers,
Peter


From: "Ralph REID" <>
To: "Birding Aus" <>
Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Superb parrots?
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:50:11 +1000

Hello all

Let me be right up front about it - I would be the most hopeless bird
identifier on this list.

In the first place, they always seem to be too hidden in foliage to get a
proper look.

In the second place, I have trouble finding anything in the field guides
that look like what I did see.

Be that as it may, over the Easter we spent a little time in the Ganmain
Forest (about 55 km west of Wagga Wagga) and saw (right out in the open this
time, for a change, right beside the dirt track that leads in to the 'back'
of the forest from the Western end) three birds which I can identify only as
SPs - these actually looked like the illustrations.

Could I have mistaken something more common for a SP?  If so, what?

Anyway, on the off-chance that they were actually SPs, I thought I should
tell the list.

Regards

Ralph Reid
Sydney





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