Over to you experts.
I have just seen a flock of >5 very small parrots. In
the fading light, it was their chirruping that drew my attention. They
were moving from tree to tree beside a walking track near the Erindale shops.
At first I thought they may be red rumped parrots, but a few moved low enough
for me to see that there was one green bird with a yellow head, three blue with
grey/white mottled wings, and one bright yellow over the head neck and upper
part of the folded wing, with greenish abdomen. Not a red rump among
them. Just like budgerigars. However, I thought they were a tad
bigger than the pet budgerigars we had 30 years ago, and would have been very
uncomfortable in the standard budgie cage.
Are the budgies in this part of the world bigger and better
than elsewhere?
Margaret Leggoe
