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Dead Rainbow Lorikeet

To: "'calyptorhynchus .'" <>, 'Canberra Birds' <>
Subject: Dead Rainbow Lorikeet
From: Philip Veerman <>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 05:20:49 +0000

Maybe it was roosting at night and died from old age / starvation / dehydration / heart attack / stroke / aneurism / disease /…….. and a child saw it and thought “what a pretty bird, I must take it home to Mum”. Got halfway across a patch of open ground on Red Hill and thought “actually I don’t think Mum wants an ex parrot” and left it there for John Cleese but John Leonard found it instead. There goes the missed story of a famous comedy routine.

 

Philip.

 

From: calyptorhynchus . [
Sent: Monday, 16 September, 2019 12:53 PM
To: Canberra Birds
Subject: [canberrabirds] Dead Rainbow Lorikeet

 

Last week I saw a peculiar thing, in the middle of a patch of open ground on Red Hill I saw a dead rainbow lorikeet.

The bird was seemingly completely uninjured, it didn’t look like it had been attacked by a Peregrine or a Sparrowhawk. It was just lying on its back, wings half open, feet clenched and eyes shut. Reminding me rather comically of an eagle on a German flag or whatever. As it was in the middle of an open area it can’t have accidentally collided with anything. I thought it was rather peculiar because it seemed to have just dropped out of the sky apparently.

Any thoughts?

 

John Leonard

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John Leonard
Canberra
Australia
www.jleonard.net

‘There is kinship between people and all animals. Such is the Law.’ Kimberley lawmen (from Yorro Yorro)

 

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