Superb parrots ?- or ? Belconnen Golf Course

[Julian Robinson <>]

Not necessarily answering Jean's question, but quite a few parrots splay
their tails on landing.  I'd be interested to know how many parrots
do this  or perhaps it's characteristic of all parrots?  I know
Eastern Rosellas do this spectacularly, but don't have a pic.

Superbs - exceptionally widely spread 'fingers'.

Glossies - widely spread but broad feathers too so no gaps.

At 04:41 PM 4/06/2010, casburnj wrote:

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
 

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From: Nicki Taws
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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