Spiky-looking fanning is characteristic of Swifties when
perched, alighting or close-manoeuvring around perches, and I think could be a
good indicator from a distance if other things could be ruled out –
From: Julian Robinson
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Sent: Friday, 4 June 2010 9:06 PM
To: casburnj; 'Nicki Taws'; 'Rosie - Internode'; 'canberra birds'
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Superb parrots ?- or ? Belconnen Golf
Course
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
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.
Nicki Taws
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0408 210 736
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Thursday, June 03, 2010 5:12 PM
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[canberrabirds] Superb parrots
Three
vocal Superb parrots flew south through the centre of Flynn at 9.50 this
morning (Thursday).
Does
anyone know of other recent sighting of over-wintering SP's?
Rosemary
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