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At Batemans Bay (surely that should be
Batemen Bay or Bateman's Bay) on Friday we saw an odd
Galah or maybe a hybrid. It was at the picnic spot on the left just before going
over the bridge after turning south off onto the Princess Highway. The bird is
partly grey as usual for a Galah but mostly an uneven white on the wings and
back. The pink underparts were rather more apricot hued than usual. The inner
webs of the primaries (as in visible only on the spread underwing at least on
one side) were yellow like in a S-c Cockatoo. The crest feathers were longer and
more pointed than for a usual Galah and with more pink. The shape was like a
Galah except that it had bare blue-grey skin around the eye very much like
a Corella. All that to me suggests a Galah X Corella hybrid. It was
associating with a normal looking Galah. This was a closer look at a very
similar bird that I recall seeing at exactly the same location about 5 years
ago.
Philip
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