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At Batemans Bay (surely that should be
Batemen Bay or Bateman's Bay) on Friday 24 May 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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