Peter & Betty Baitz commented that they thought it unlikely that
Cockatiels would be escapees because they were a pair. I cannot
comment on that particular sighting but wanted to share the following
story.
About 2 or 3 years ago there was a small flock of Red-rumped Parrots
suddenly turned up in Sun Valley (in the lower Blue Mountains, west
of Sydney) and they kept being seen in that area for a year or so.
They're not normally found at that location although they are
normally seen in parts of western Sydney and just west of the
mountains, not so far away, so I assumed that these were birds driven
into a new area by the drought. As they were a flock, no-one
considered they might be escapees, and they certainly looked like
wild birds. I even mentioned this as an example of bird movements in
the drought during a talk I gave to the Blue Mtns Conservation
Society. However some months after they were first seen, one of our
local bird observers who lives in that area was speaking to a
neighbour who keeps birds. That neighbour happened to mention that he
had released all his Red-rumped Parrots a few months earlier as they
were breeding too quickly!
I guess it shows we can never assume that birds aren't
escapees/releasees, and I suspect that more sightings are due to this
than we realise.
cheers
Carol
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Carol Probets
Guided birding in the Blue Mountains & Capertee Valley
PO Box 330
Katoomba NSW 2780
Web: http://www.bmbirding.com.au
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