As a boy I kept parrots and size does not matter - nothing stands up to a
rainbow in a mixed collection that I've seen yet - rosellas are territorial,
pugnacious, bossy and will bite each others toes off through wire in adjacent
cages, but no match for and give way to rainbows.
The magpie incident is interesting, as I haven't seen rainbows and magpies
interact, but I'm not surprised......
Allan Richardson
Morisset NSW
On 21/10/2012, at 10:32 AM, brian fleming wrote:
> A friend just sent me this and I thought it well worth sharing.
> Anthea Fleming
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> Saw something that astonished me the other day: watching a pair of magpies
> puttering about on a friend's bird feeder/table. Rainbow lorrikeet lands,
> strides purposefully across table, like a slightly drunken sailor in search
> of more whisky - HEADBUTTS Magpie straight in the breastbone - magpie falls
> appx 4 ft to the ground....picks self up in a 'yes sir, anything you say sir'
> kind of way, and continues to peck about on the ground...lorrikeet takes
> charge of entirety of table. no ifs, buts or maybes
>
> am absolutely astonished by this. I know rainbow lorrikeets are ratbags but
> am unaccustomed to the concept of a magpie taking second place under any
> circumstance (have known a friend's cat to hide from magpies, after catching
> one....and copping the ire of its relatives ever after). Have you seen such
> a thing?
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