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Vicki Parslow Stafford wrote:
>
> birding-aus
>
> Russell Woodford's query, and Mike Owen's response, prompted me to ask for
> suggestions about a "mystery parrot" seen in my back yard last week.
>
> I was alerted by the call at first. Rainbow and scaly-breasted lorikeets
> are in large numbers around here, and pale headed-rosellas quite common.
> This was the call of a single bird, a rather sweet double-syllabled
> rosella-like tinkling chirrup. Eventually I spotted signs of vigorous
> lorikeet-like scrabbling in a small cassia bush. The bird was doing as
> lorikeets do when feeding eg shuffling along the branch, hanging
> upside-down etc (but no blossoms on the tree).
>
> I didn't get a good look from all angles before it flew off, so all I could
> tell was that it had a fairly uniform dull olive-green colour above; no
> head or facial colour markings that I could see at that distance; and a
> pale-lemon belly (no distinct demarcation between breast and belly). In
> size, it was noticeably smaller than a scaly-breasted lorikeet, with a
> short stubby tail.
>
I don't have any real idea for this bird Vicki. The visual
description possibly sounds a bit like an immature peachface
lovebird (they only get face colour at around 4 to 6 months) but
a lovebird in no way has a "rather sweet double-syllabled
rosella-like tinkling chirrup". More a harsh machine gun
racket! Maybe a young Turquoisine but I have never seen one hang
up-side-down on a branch. The colour and song might match but
the behaviour doesn't. Maybe it has been hanging out with
Lorikeets!
cheers,
Mike Owen
Sunshine Coast
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