Suburban Melbourne Budgerigar

[Dr Richard Nowotny <>]

A somewhat unexpected sighting yesterday in Elizabeth St in the Melbourne 
suburb of Malvern (? 10km ESE of the GPO) was a wild-plumaged Budgerigar 
feeding on grasses on a roadside verge. Obviously a domestic escape, it was 
quite confiding, allowing extremely close approach, but flying off to a 
nearby verge or an adjacent tree when a couple of gentle attempts were made 
to catch it.
Shades of Miami? (For those who don't know, the suburbs of Miami, Florida 
are awash with escapes, ferals, introductions and tropical birds of 
questionable provenance - including a number of psittacines, of which 
Budgerigar has been one in the past - and may still be, although their 
numbers have fallen dramatically from what they were 20 or so years ago).
Regards
Richard Nowotny




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