Even if one manages to clock some in a car, who's to say they couldn't go
faster still if they wanted? Perhaps GPS tracking is a better method. You could
check what their fastest speed was in a week or a month, on the assumption that
they might have been fleeing a raptor in that time.
Steering with your knees while taking photos out the window? Hmm.
Peter Shute
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> On 24 Feb 2016, at 8:17 PM, Barney Enders <> wrote:
>
> That is a very interesting question, but getting the chance to drive
> parallel to them will be the hard part.
> I also had large flight aviaries and they certainly didn't take long to get
> from one end to the other which they did constantly flying
> around calling loudly.
> Little and Purple-crowned Lorikeets are also very fast.
>
> There are a lot of birds that their speed is deceiving, a few years ago
> there were a pair of resident Australian Shelduck living at the
> Mondecollina Bore down the Strezelecki Track with a family of Grey Teal who
> I thought would have been a lot faster than a lumbering
> Shelduck.
> The drake spent a lot of time trying to hunt the Teal away, not letting them
> land on the open water and he did it with ease, the only way
> the Teal could avoid him was cornering tightly or diving quickly just as he
> stretched his neck out to grab them , he would do a large half circle
> and come back and do it over again.
> I sat there watching it happen taking many photos, he would walk around the
> shallow water with his mate for a while feeding and when the
> Teal re-appeared would start again, as there was no water close by the Teal
> had no alternative but to come back to this spot.
>
> On the way home driving along the gravel road near Windorah I noticed a
> large flock of Flock Bronzewing Pigeons spread out across the plain flying
> only a few feet above the ground as they do.
> They were coming towards me at an angle on my right heading to cross the
> road in front of me so I speed up and turned them parallel to the road
> and took photos while steering with my knees ( Not recommended ) I kept them
> there for a considerable distance and I clocked them at 112 km an hour.
> These photos were published on a Bird Site a few years ago under the heading
> " How fast can a Pigeon fly "
>
> There are many references to how fast the Peregrine Falcon flies so there
> must be some way of measuring the speed birds fly that is a lot safer than
> steering with ones knees Ha Ha.
> Barney.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
> Donald G. Kimball
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2016 2:07 PM
> To: birding-aus
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Parrots in Flight. Who's Fastest?
>
> Okay forgive me if I return to being a 10 year old boy and wanting to know a
> question like this one but having spent so much time watching and filming
> parrots I can't help but wonder. Okay here are my impressions. It seems
> like Rainbow Lorikeets are crazy fast. But having said that, I watched 2
> Princess near Jupiter Well in 2008 that flew about 500m in about 4 seconds
> to a nearby She-Oak. Which begs the question also. Are Princess faster
> than other parrots? An internet acquaintance swore his free-flying pet
> Princess was the fastest parrot in all of Aus. I guess the only way we
> might know is if folks on here have noticed parrot species flying parrallel
> with their cars and took note of the speed.
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