[Birding-Aus] Crimson Rosella eating chicken!
Wendy McWilliams
Victoria) and in the picnic/bbq area an adult Crimson Rosella was
holding a chicken bone (thigh I think) in one claw and nibbling bits of
chicken off it. Two juveniles were watching, so no doubt it will be a
learned practice before too long. Extraordinary!
Wendy McWilliams, Glen Waverley
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Allan Richardson
Nearly 20 years ago my wife and I stayed at Barrington Guest House, at the foot of Barrington Tops in the north of the Hunter Valley, for our 10th wedding anniversary. T-bone steak was served in the evening meal and the bones were all thrown on a large fire area where the scraps are burnt. The following morning there were three animals at the bone stack eating meat off the bones, yet all three are all normally generally regarded as feeding on vegetable matter. They were Crimson Rosellas, Sating Bowerbirds and Eastern Grey Kangaroos. I guess meat is too nutritious a food for just about anybody not to take advantage when the opportunity arises.
Allan Richardson
Morisset NSW
Jill Dark
Most pet parrots and cockatoos love chicken bones. I often give them to
Sulphurs, Galahs, Gang-gangs and any other parrots I happen to have in care.
Cheers,
Jill Dark (Wires carer)
Carl Clifford
Egg layers have to get the Calcium they need where they find it. I
have seen Galahs nibbling on old, dry cow bones.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford