canberrabirds

Re: "Pink" Cockatoo

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Subject: Re: "Pink" Cockatoo
From: John Harris <>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:25:50 +0000
Thanks Philip. I think here we just have to agree to differ, not about the 
various possibilities, but in the weight we give them. Of course I agree that 
it is possible that the Pink Cockatoos could have both at the same or different 
times got themselves stained in some way but that does not preclude the 
possibility of a natural process which I tend to favour. I do not, by the way, 
strongly advocate the SC x MM cross - my initial email,  suggesting that 
possibility, was intended as a bit of a joke given that the MM flying with the 
SCs was still a live conversation on the chatline at the time. But I do favour 
some natural process.
By the way, regarding the orange Kookaburra, it has not yet moulted into a 
different 'normal' colour in 18 months.



On 18/6/19, 2:10 pm, "Philip Veerman" <> wrote:

    I am sure the truth has a lot more coherence to the link that Paul sent, 
than being anything natural. These birds have got into some odd paint or dye or 
dirt or whatever. Or someone has done this to them intentionally. It does not 
look anything like what I would expect from a hybrid. With hybrids, there is 
typically a combination of characteristics that makes easy sense. In this case 
it just doesn't look like that.
    
    Also John wrote "Of course it could be stained in some way but Lori said it 
is one of two, which needs both of them to have been stained at the same time." 
However I don't see a logical connection there that it needs to have been that 
both had the same thing at the same time (although I would suggest a connection 
maybe to place more than time), for them or that whether or not that is true 
makes any difference to deciding what is likely to have happened. As social 
birds it is very likely that something may happen to more than just one. 
    
    Philip
    
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    Blue, green, pink and yellow cockatoos in Sydney's eastern suburbs
    
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/what-happened-to-these-cockatoos-20160427-gog4db.html
    
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