G'day all
I was riding to work on Monday and had 3-4 Musk Lorikeets fly straight over
my head (I instinctively ducked!). They were bullets. Had to be doing way
in excess of 100 km/h.
They get my vote for fastest parrots.
Cheers
Steve Clark
Hamilton, Victoria
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Tony Russell <>
wrote:
> Fig parrots are pretty fast too.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birding-Aus On Behalf
> Of
> Kev Lobotomi
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 11:22 PM
> To: Peter Shute; Barney Enders
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Parrots in Flight. Who's Fastest?
>
> I would have thought Swift Parrot would be the fastest! Hence its name!
> They
> are rather quick in flight. I think I've clocked Musk Lorikeets at least at
> 60 KPH flying next to a car.-Kevin Bartram
>
> > From:
> > To:
> > Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:47:11 +1100
> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Parrots in Flight. Who's Fastest?
> > CC:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > > 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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