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city Red-rumps

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Subject: city Red-rumps
From: "Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS)" <>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:32:37 +1000
> From: 
>
> 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...

They are common in Melbourne parks at certain times of year, feeding
in the grass.  I often see them along the Yarra between Yarra Bend Park
and Heidelberg.  This is three to ten km from the city centre.

        David


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