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While photographing a Striated Pardalote nest late
this afternoon, I heard a Superb Parrot call nearby and then some begging calls.
Extracting myself from the pardalotes, I turned to find these two Superb Parrots
on a tree not 10 metres away. The female begged and was fed many
times by the male before she crouched down, spread her wings and they
copulated. The whole process appeared gentle and unhurried, not fitting the
'quite lively' description given by Forshaw in Australian
Parrots.
Steve
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