pale headed rosella in Torrens

["martin butterfield" <>]

Its a newbie for the GBS - there wasn't even a code for this species in the Birdlist.  (Quite reasonably, too: however there is one now, waiting for Ruth's chart.)

 

If the aviculturists are organised and have a website it would be good if they publicised it so that COGites spotting their (presumably quite valuable) birds wandering the streets could report them. 

 

It was not uncommon to see wistful notices about lost parrots stuck on lamposts on Manhattan.  The notices recognised the value of the birds, and the driving motivation of most people in that Borough, by featurng the word "Reward" fairly prominently!

 

Martin

 

On 4/18/07, Philip Veerman <> wrote:

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 m("canberrabirds.org.au","canberrabirds");" target="_blank"> Canberra Birds 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