Corellas...

[James Rolevink <>]

I saw four Corellas (not sure if long billed yet) at Floriade this morning. I hopefully got some shots (flying perching etc), together with a host of other little guys. Am about to start processing them now...


on 18/9/05 4:42 AM, Paul Fennell at  wrote:

> I saw three or four longbilled corellas and a shortbilled corella
> feeding on the ground near the Civic Pool the other day in company with
> about 8 or 9 SCC.
> Paul
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> > As a brief example, the little corellas I am hearing in the early
> morning chorus
> > were not here when I first set foot in Canberra in the 70's. It is not
> human
> > intervention that has brought them here but atmospheric change
>
> Little Corellas have certainly increased in Canberra in recent years,
> but isn't that partly due to a release of caged birds from the now
> defunct zoo near Red Hill?  Not saying that there hasn't been an influx
> of wild birds, but I thought the birds seen around Griffith and
> Narrabundah at least in part originated from these formerly captive
> individuals - or is that one of those urban myths?
>
> Brendan
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