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Hi Ruth,
I'd give it a 99+% chance on being an aviary
escaper or releasee, and a <1% chance on being a long distant wild bird. Not
that my opinion is proof. I think it would be a GBS first (certainly there were
none for the first 21 years). As most of us will have noticed from the GBS
report, there are already many parrot species that don't occur naturally in our
area, that are recorded within the suburbs and on GBS charts.
I think the aviculturists in Canberra should stay
in contact with this list
and get the latest info on where their latest lost birds have got
to.
I don't know how many people are
interested, there is a whole e-mail chat line called "feral naturalised
parrots", although that is mostly interested in tracking the progress of things
like Rose-ringed Parrots in Europe, and a few other cases.
Philip
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