Re; Exotic plants for our native birds

["Peter Ormay" <>]

Thank you Wendy.

I'm not advocating planting more exotic trees. My idea when I suggested 
compiling information on exotic trees for native birds was to give people 
who were looking for a decorative tree to plant a choice of selecting one 
that will provide food for native species as well as be decorative.
A few years ago I saw about a dozen King Parrots feeding on some exotic 
trees and on the ground under them in Yarralumla about this time of the 
year. Their colour, contrasting with the autumn leaves was stunning. They 
looked like Xmas decorations.  I thought why aren't there more of these 
trees planted?   I think they were Pistachia chinensis trees. I'd rather 
have more of those trees than the boring Pin Oaks that have dead leaves on 
them all through winter.
Cheers,    Peter



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