I recently spent an hour or so photographing what appeared to be a
creche of young-of-the-year Little Corellas. There were around 20 on the
ground, lairising around. Their elders and betters were perched in trees
above them. While adults will muck around, these young ones were really
getting stuck into it - playfighting with each other, rolling around on
the ground, doing little flights, playing with sticks and the like.
Unfortunately, the images were not all that good - I couldn't get around
far enough to get the light from behind.
regards
Con
On 24/03/2015 4:39 PM, calyptorhynchus . wrote:
For a few months I have been observing a flock of Corellas near the
Woden town-centre in Canberra. These are birds which have a feral
(cage-bird) origin. Amongst them are several pairs of Long-billed type
Corellas (they seem to prefer to pair with their own kind as it were).
I have observed that the Little Corellas are intensely playful, and
seem to spend most of their time swooping around, hanging upside down
from street lamps, playing with paper cups, having mock fights with
each other &c. However the Long-billeds seem much quieter and more
placid, and often seem to be slightly embarrassed by the antics of
their cousins. They, whilst associating in the same flock, mostly sit
around quietly observing the play, but not taking part in it.
Has anyone observed this difference from separate observations of wild
Little and Long-billed flocks?
--
John Leonard
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