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A few years ago at a local cricket ground, my son and I saw grass
parrots (red-rumped parrots) nesting in a hole in the ground left
after the removal of a soccer goal. man-made and perfectly round, I
suppose they had cleared out a bit of extra lateral room at the
bottom of the hole. teh area was swarming with folk, the the birds
seemed safe as long as no on e stuck anything down the hole.
Happy birding!
Gordon Cain
Schofields, NW Sydney
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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:24:28 +1100
From: "michael norris" m("ozemail.com.au","menorris");"><>
Subject: Ground floor lorikeets/parrrots
Hi All
Maybe the question should be: which parrot species will absolutely not,
never, nest at ground level?
Andrew Thelander mentioned budgies nesting on the ground, and I remember an
account of cliff-nesting galahs, an injured SC cockatoo nesting on the
ground, and a corella (long-billed?) making its nest hole in the middle of
field for crops [in the AFO?].
And on 7 March Jason Searle reported Rainbow Lorikeets nesting under an
uplifted concrete slab.
Incidentally I too have seen Rainbow Lorikeets nesting close to the ground
(in the base of a Sugar Gum). Ours are hungry for nest sites with the
burgeoning - pest status, some say - population as a result, I guess, of
planting non-indigenous eucalypts in the 1970s.... and people feeding them.
The Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology conjectured that another
possible cause was the heat island effect of the Melbourne metropolis.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/18/1082226635772.html
Michael Norris
Bayside, Melbourne
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