When I was in Alice Springs two years ago, lorikeets (not sure what variety)
were stealing sugar packets from an outdoor cafe - they ignored the packets of
sugar substitute. They would fly off with them, perch and eat the sugar at
their leisure.
On 4 Dec 2015, at 7:56 am, Stephanie Haygarth <> wrote:
> In about 2006 I was at the former Red Belly Black Cafe in Civic. Australian
> ravens were taking sugar sachets from outside tables, to the annoyance of one
> of the waiters. I spoke with the waiter and he said that he'd seen how the
> ravens had quickly learned to distinguish between natural sugar and synthetic
> sweeteners, always preferring the sachets of the natural product.
>
> Cheers
> Matthew Higgins
> On 04/12/2015, at 7:51 AM, Graeme Clifton wrote:
>
>> An out of area report.
>>
>> At The Rocks in Sydney on Wednesday, I saw a Rainbow Lorikeet fly down to a
>> table at an outdoors eating venue and pick up an unopened sugar straw. It
>> immediately flew to an overhead tree and was joined by another. They seemed
>> to be biting on the packaging and presumably extracting the sugar.
>>
>> Graeme Clifton
>>
>
>
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