On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 wrote:
> 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
The whole point of my posting is that Western Corella is a different
species to Long-billed Corella. The birds that Tony Russell quite
correctly identified as Long-billed Corellas (and hence his original
query) are INTRODUCED / ESCAPED and are on the increase.
The Western Corella was split from Little Corellas in the last list from
Christidis & Boles (1994?).
I apologise to Alex about missing the reference to Serventy & Whittell. I
am using PINE to read my mail while at work, and I didn't realise his
posting had more than one screenful so I missed that part of his message
quoting this reference totally. Until this I have never heard anyone
mention that the Western Corella was formerly common on the Swan Coastal
Plain (and hence Perth).
Maybe it is time for a new thread ... perhaps what species I will see on
Lake Argyle this weekend ...
Frank O'Connor
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