For several years now, there's been an established colony of Rainbow
Lorikeets roosting and breeding in woodland near the Pinnacle in Hawker,
probably descended from escapees. For many years, that was, I believe,
the only place you could see R. Lorikeets in Canberra. But in the last
couple of years, they've obviously been spreading outwards judging from
reports of sightings in the Weston Creek area and now the ANU. I also
noticed them appear in Florey for the first time last Spring-Summer,
feeding on the flowering ironbarks. Whether a growing local population
of R. Lorikeets is a good thing or not I will leave for others to decide.
John Brannan
Anthony Overs wrote:
Dimitris, you need to get out more! Rainbow Lorikeets are an everyday
bird in Hawker and Scullin now. There must be something flowering
nearby to me in Scullin, with up to eight birds at a time flying
around! And dropping my boy and picking him up at Hawker primary, I
hear or see them every time.
Anthony
2009/9/4 Dimitris Bertzeletos <
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Hello All,
Had pair of Rainbow Lorikeets fly over union court just 20
minutes ago. My first sighting of the species in the ACT. =)
Cheers!
D.
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