It has been interesting watching the discussion on corellas also use the
common name Western Long billed corella , for a sub species of corella It is
a different species to the Victorian long bills though . My guess would be
that the birds in Question are indigenous even if individual birds had
escaped they would probably have flocked up with local birds with which they
could certainly cross breed I have seen a sulphur X little and would bet a
corellaX to be highly probable . Long billed corellas are know regularly
seen in Templestowe along the Yarra usually in a mixed flock with Sulphurs .
I usually hear there distinctive calls before I see them not realising they
are included in the flock . I wonder if they have also come from aviary
escapes . Victoria wide they seem to have definitely increased in numbers
over the past years Formerly being considered endangered although locally
common in some areas
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