canberrabirds

Little Corellas

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Subject: Little Corellas
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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:30:17 +1000

They could be digging up Romulea rosea (Guildford Grass) corms.  That species is a very common weed in in Canberra on nature strips, median strips and vacant land.

 

Brendan

 

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Subject: [canberrabirds] Little Corellas

 

Driving along Captain Cook Crescent just now I paused to count the L Corellas feeding on the centre strip:  160 plus another dozen around the corner in Carnegie.  This is not a unique event due to the drought, as similar winter numbers have been reported in recent years.   The attraction seemed to be the rootlets that could be easily prised from the now-sodden ground.   So far as I could see this had been sown with that Canberra speciality, Parksandplaces Dryland Weed Mixture.

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