On a birdwalk in Sydney's inner-west on 28 May, my birding mate
showed me, in a park, a small group of Red-rumped Parrots. For me
this was an astonishing sight -- I'd only ever seen these birds in
the country before, and in their delicacy had never thought of them
as 'cosmopolitan'. I might have imagined seeing them in, say,
Canberra, or the outer-suburban parks of Adelaide or Brisbane -- but
in this inner-Sydney park, with its people, dogs, joggers, densely
built-up and with heavy traffic curving around so close by...
Perhaps a half-k further along in our walk, my friend showed
me the tree-hollow in which he'd seen Red-rumps some time in the past
year or so! This is a ruined tree in a pseudo riparian gallery.
Forshaw, in his Parrots (2002), cites flocks 'occasionally
being seen near the [Sydney] city centre (Hindwood&McGill 1958,
Hoskin 1991).'
The park workers have left the tree there... so perhaps my
friend is not the only one who knows about these birds.
Cheers,
Judith
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