>A couple of people have responded to my posting by asking if Mulga
>parrots normally eat animal food. I assumed that they don't, hence my
>interest when I observed the behaviour, but perhaps someone on the list
>with access to HANZAB can confirm or refute this assumption.
>(I know Black Cockatoos have been recorded extracting and eating grubs
>from under tree bark and pet cockies of various sorts will chew on a
>chop bone or whatever.)
>Regards
>Anne Green
There may be information in the following. Does anyone have access to them?
The food of Australian birds
R.D. Barker and W.J.M. Vestjens.
Lyneham, A.C.T. : CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, [1989?-1990?]
In two volumes
Volume 1 Non-passerines ISBN 0643050078
Volume 2 Passerines ISBN 0643051155
Regards
Ralph Reid
Sydney
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