In winter 1975 I began seriously trying to photograph birds. I remember
how surprised I was to find a pair of Rainbow Lorikeets investigating
hollows at Furness Park, Blackburn,(Melbourne, eastern suburbs) and I
photographed them too. Before that I had never seen them west of
Bairnsdale, barring a few obvious escapes around the Zoo in Parkville.
Anthea Fleming
Paul & Irene Osborn wrote:
When I began birding in earnest around 1988, Rainbow Lorikeets were
not present in the Newcastle area. We had to stop off in Lane Cove
Park on the way to somewhere in Sydney to tick them. Shortly after
this, some animal rights activists released a large number of parrots,
including Little Corellas and Rainbow Lorikeets from cages in
Blackbutt Reserve (Newcastle). Whether the current populations of
these birds in Newcastle are descended from those or not is unknown,
but the sudden increase in numbers of these birds in the area happened
around the early 90s.
Paul Osborn
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