Dear Anne and all at BirdingAus
HANZAB has a few records of Mulga Parrots eating unidentified insect larvae but
no snails. The sources for the insect observations were:
White, S.A.1913. Emu 13: 16-32. [Reports stomach contents, of galls and
larvae, so possible that larvae were ingested incidentally.]
Saunders, D., & J. Ingram. 1995. Birds of Southwestern Australia. Surrey
Beatty, Sydney. [Just states food as, among other things, 'grubs'.]
Hall, B.P. (Ed.) 1974. Birds of the Harold Hall Australian Expeditions,
1962-70. British Museum Natural History, London. ['once, some small
greenish-yellow grubs', probably from stomach contents.]
Further to Ralph Reid's reply, Barker & Vestjen's Food of Australian Birds is
always (or should always be) summarized in the HANZAB Food texts.
Hope this helps.
Cheers, Peter
Peter Higgins
Managing Editor, Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds
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