Galahs (aka Riverina Parrots) et al flocking

[Martin Butterfield via Canberrabirds <>]

John

Your conversationalist must be one of a kind.  Fraser and Gray don't, in Australian Bird Names, list Riverina Parrot in its own right nor as an alternative name for Galah. 

Martin Butterfield

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On Sun, 6 Mar 2022 at 13:21, John Layton via Canberrabirds <> wrote:

With the first week of autumn Galahs are flocking around my home patch of Holt. At 07:00 hrs yesterday I counted 38 in trees at Woolworths carpark, Kippax. There mighthave been closer to 50 as well as Eastern Rosellas and Red-rumped Parrots. However I became a little distracted by passers-by inquiring, “What are you doing, are you birdwatching?” One charming lady asked, “What do you call those big pink and grey ones? [!]”
“Galahs,” I said. “What do you call them?”

“Riverina Parrots,” she said.

Vernacular bird names can be an irritation at times but, nonetheless, a source of amusement and interest.

Thirty minutes later, behind Kippax Fair, I watched a group of seven Willie Wagtails hunting as they climbed, swooped and swept through the humid air. Nearby, on the oval embankment, twenty Red-rumped Parrots grazed accompanied by four dependant young.

 

John Layton

Holt.

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