Lorikeet foods - includes meat

["michael norris" <>]

It should have been published as a database that could be updated - but its 
on paper and not updated:
Barker, R.D. and  Vestjens, W.J.M. The food of Australian birds  (2 vols) 
CSIRO 1990.   I guess the info has gone into HANZAB (which should be an 
updatable on-line resource).
> From memory you can look up a bird in the books and see what it was known to 
eat, or look at a plant and see what birds feed on it (or perhaps I just did 
that for myself).
In Melbourne Rainbow Lorikeets are now in plague proportions in Melbourne 
largely due to the 1970s fad for planting Australian native - rather than 
indigenous - trees.   Feeding them with sugar solution etc. doesn't help to 
keep down their numbers!
I have several times seen them feeding on minced meat, stuck in lumps on 
branches in a park by some kind person for the butcherbirds.
Michael Norris