Orange-bellied Parrot at Healesville Sanctuary

[brian fleming <>]

On Monday I visited Healesville Sanctuary. A pair of Orange-bellied 
Parrots live in an aviary labelled 'Endangered Species', but I was very 
concerned to see that the female was minus most of her breast feathers, 
so that she looked quite pink down the front.
  A FOTZ volunteer guide told me that this was a stress response to the 
presence of two pairs of Scaly-breasted Lorikeets in the same aviary. 
The Lorikeets are larger and apparently bully the OBPs.
  This is no weather for any bird to be without much of its body 
feathers.  It seems very poor management and lack of proper care for an 
endangered species.
Anthea Fleming
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