I have been trying to decide whether I saw
6 Superb Parrots or 6 Swift Parrots in my brief viewing today. Could not tarry
on the golf course.
Description without binocs:
Birds flying up to the top of a tall gum
Allover greenish yellow appearance with
some brief flashes of red
Voice high pitched swit swit or chip chip
then still noisy in the tree with other sounds
Before landing the tail feathers were
splayed out (looked like spaces in between) and spikey looking with what looked
like two longer feathers below the fanned out ones.
Any ideas – especially the fanned
out tail feathers.
Cheers
JEan
From: Nicki Taws
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Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2010 5:30
PM
To: Rosie - Internode; canberra
birds
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds]
Superb parrots
One male Superb Parrot in Cook yesterday. Three of them were
hanging around well into April but this is the first one I've seen for several
weeks.
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