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I'd think on balance of probabilities, a member of
this species, at that location is likely to be an escaped bird. But we don't
know, during drought they could turn up here. I wouldn't doubt Joe Forshaw's parrot expertise but I'm curious what it is in
those pictures that makes it "evident from the pics that the Turquoise
Parrot is an escapee, being a 'dilute mutation'." To me, the top photo is small
but quite a good picture and looks pretty normal (like Cooper's picture in Joe
Forshaw's book and the bird no 11 in HANZAB plate 26). The other two photos are
so dark, it is hard to see how they could be a dilute version of
anything.
Philip
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