Superb parrots ?- or ? Belconnen Golf Course

[Sue Lashko <>]

Three short-tailed small parrots flew across as I was driving through Glenloch Interchange towards the east yesterday afternoon, so not Swifts but suspect Little or Musk Lorikeets.  Unfortunately they were flying fast - and traffic was heavy - so it was impossible to get a definite ID.

 

Sue

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 4:41 PM, 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.

 

Nicki Taws

 

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