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Hello,
I have a dead
Swift Parrot in my posession. Let me tell the story. Wanna Wanna Rd
is at the top of the escarpment just east of Super City (Qbyn), 1st Rd off the
Captains Flat Rd. On 21st April 1999 I made a tentative sighting of 6 to 8
Swift P's on the wing. I mentioned this to a neighbour.
He rang me last night to tell me he had a Swift P
that was found on Sunday dead in his tennis court. We assume it flew into
the perimeter fence of the court. There was a report of Swift P at Regent
Drive Kingsway a couple of weeks ago; the site of this parrots demise is about
4km east of there. Interestingly there are extensive flowering of E
nortonii at both sites.
Also interestingly, my neighbour used 2 books to
identify the deceased. They were Forshaws parrot book and the Readers
Digest book and the Swift P was on page 274 of both books. My
neighbour has an eye for detail.
About the bird; it doesn't have blue cheeks and is
only faintly blue on the crown. Could it be a juvenile?
Graeme Clifton
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