hybrid lorikeet?

[Philip Veerman <>]

I still can’t see the photos. Does the photo reveal anything about the size? Worth mentioning that a hybrid (if it is) does not need to be a first generation hybrid, far from it. Depending on how many generations back the hybridisation goes and the process could happen several times in the ancestry of one bird. e.g. a bird’s parents can be a rainbow that was mated to a hybrid of a rainbow and a musk of which one parent was a hybrid of a rainbow and a scaly-breasted…….. So the features and size whilst typically intermediate need not be, they can be a range of mixes of features.

 

 

 

From: calyptorhynchus [
Sent: Saturday, 6 April, 2019 8:22 AM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] hybrid lorikeet?

 

I'm no expert Sandra, but it looks a standard Rainbow with strange patterns around the crown. Any hybrid should be smaller than a Rainbow, which is the biggest Australian Lorikeet. Could it be a captive colour variety that has escaped?

 

John Leonard

 

On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 at 08:16, sandra henderson <> wrote:

photographed this bird in a small tree (Wanniassa Hills Primary carpark in Billson Pl) with rainbow and musk lorikeets this morning. very odd colour pattern

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sandra h

 

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