Hello to all the good people of Birding-aus! Good news (at least to me): I am returning to Australia (from Finland) early Monday morning Sep 7th on a business trip with my colleague Markku! Our work will this time be centered in Parkes. The last (also first) time I was in Australia, was in 2012 … Read more
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It was an old trick of the bird poachers when they were taking the young Majors from the nests to place young Galahs in the nest so that the Majors would rear them and use the same hollow the next year. They were always active in N. S.W. in the week of the Melbourne Cup … Read more
Speaking of hybrids. In the wild it takes a bit more to create a hybrid but when two lonely birds are housed in the same aviary one never knows…. I was shocked with this one. A blue Princess Parrot female with her mate a male Scarlet-chested parrot. And yes they produced a chick that looks … Read more
Cross breeding in closely related parrots in the wild is well known, but the reasons why and the associated life history mechanisms are not. Many years ago when, with Ian Rowley, I was lucky enough to study Major Mitchell’s Cockatoos for some years in Western Australia, we were able to document, using marked individuals, just … Read more