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FW: Identification

To: "'Mark Roberts'" <>, "'birding-aus'" <>
Subject: FW: Identification
From: "Harold Peacock" <>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:31:50 +1000
Thanks Mark & Tim

We have heaps of PHR here, and definitely not one of them.

Slightly bigger, and colours absolutely distinct.

Still a mystery.

My challenge is to get a good photo!


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Roberts 
Sent: Thursday, 14 April 2005 5:24 PM
To: birding-aus
Cc: Tim Murphy; 
Subject: FW: Identification

> Yesterday morning 8:30am 13/04/05 I saw a new parrot in my Brisbane
> (Pullenvale) back yard, and could not find it in either 'Wildlife of
Greater
> Brisbane' or 'The Claremont Field Guide to the Birds of Australia'
(Simpson
> & Day).
> It had a fully yellow head, light green breast, slight darker green
back,
> and when it flew it displayed blue on the under side of the wings.
> It was about 30cm, and there was a pair, the other presumably female
because
> its colours were not as bright although was about the same size, so
both
> appeared fully grown.

There are plenty of Pale-Headed Rosella round here - I'm just across the
river in Westlake. Until you get to know PHR they can be very difficult
to
find in Simpson & Day.  It has two paintings, neither of which emphasise
its
pale-headedness well enough to allow a quick ID if it's a new bird.  I'm
new
round here, and at first I found myself searching the book for this
predominant field marking and not finding it.

Of course the other descriptions aren't quite right, but they don't seem
to
fit anything else in S&D either.  So PHR is my quick guess as a local
who's
relatively new to local species.  Of course if Hazz is already familiar
with
PHR and has dismissed it, then think again.


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