Rainbow Lorrikeets
Craig Young
and entertaining.They are sociable, inquisitive, feisty
and greedy. They are not gender-obvious and are known to
practice same-gender sex and parenting. The parallels
that can be drawn between the queer communities and
these sensuous, intelligent and adaptable birds are
amazing..."
Luke Cutler
2001 Adelaide Feast
[LG Cultural]
Festival
DNA Oct 2001
David McLoughlin
>
> "...are intense, playful, curious, affectionate, extroverted
They're also a serious threat to what remains of our native bird
population. Some idiot on Auckland's North Shore let a huge flock of
them free a couple of years back, and they have been aggressively
muscling in on other birds since. Regarded as a pest now and able to be
shot on sight.
Pretty birds though, and clever.
Jonnie
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ahh Bluey's .. :)
cheers y'all
Bird!
and owing to the fact they are nectar eaters rather than seed eaters
they can shit through the eye of a needle at forty paces.... so to
speak. Keep this in mind when you are near caged individuals.
They love to cling to the side of the cage and aim at you. Not all,
just some. How did Murray Ball write it? Blurrrrrrrk!
Bird!
Jonnie
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Not strictly true Bird. They do eat seed along with nectar, at least the
large flock which feasts on the feeders outside do. Thier getting the honey
from the flowering gums around the place and the seed from us !
cheers y'all
Bird!
wrote:
Oh, ok, the ones in the bird stores get that watery mix stuff.
Bird doo is pretty watery at the best of times but with their liking
of nectar.......
I've heard that getting struck by bird pooh is good luck.
I was making a gate for the porch last week that bloody trellis stuff
is a bitch to frame... it keeps moving when you try and measure it and
there is an angle on the bannister and it was just one of those shitty
jobs that looks quite simple but turns out to be frustrating and
induces object throwing.
The wind kept blowing things over and was also blowing my shirt up my
back and this just increased the levels of frustration.
I was getting to the point where it was all supposed to come together,
the hinges were on but because of the angle, the gate would only open
a little way, the hinges came off, new marks were made, holes drilled,
screws replaced, It still wouldn't open... then a blackbird landed on
the tv ariel. I heard it trill a couple of times but I was hell bent
on getting this bloody gate on and useable, more marks, more drilling,
*splat!* I looked up "Aww you rotten sod" I yelled , 'must get a
lotto ticket I thought'. I waved my arms at it but all it did was
look at me with a beady eye. Not to be swayed from my task I gritted
my teeth and carried on thinking now it had relieved itself that would
be an end to it.... no... it had obviously saved up enough for another
assault and as I was staring through the decking at the screw that had
just rolled out of my reach and down onto the driveway below *splat!*
again. "Right!" I threatened, but no matter how much I tried to make
that bird move off it just clung to it's perch. I can only assume it
was working up another effort. I swear it was smiling
I managed to re hinge the gate and finally got it to where it opened.
The bird flew off with one of those irritating mock laughter calls.
I bought a lotto ticket and can safely say that the whole luck thing
of a bird poohing on you does not bring on the fortunes of the winning
numbers.
I didn't slip in the shower however so maybe that was where the luck
was aimed.
Bird!
Scott Higham
David McLoughlin wrote:
They are everywhere in Queensland, and its quite ridiculous that they are
regarded as some kind of rare species in NZ.
My parents have an aviary with a few rainbow lorikeets, and they paid
hundreds of dollars for them thinking they had these exotic things that
nobody had heard of. They were pissed when overseas to see that they were
very common.
S.
Calum Bennachie
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Indeed, go down to Wilson's Promontory in Vic, and they just absolutely mob
you. Perching anywhere they can on you to try to share your lunch with you.
It's better to take along some bird seed and bread, throw that around you
and then you get a little peace from them. They'll be squabbling among
themselves too much to bother about trying to share what you are trying to
eat.
Calum
Brian Logan
Promoting them as rare makes the owners take more care of them and
less likely to let them loose into the wild.
b.
Jonnie
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> >They are everywhere in Queensland, and its quite ridiculous that they are
> >regarded as some kind of rare species in NZ.
Not quite everywhere, only the native to the eastern seaboard, North
Northern Territory, and a tiny population in Western Australia. Not endemic
in the desert areas. They however, are an extremely aggresive bird and will
quite easily wipe out the native birds through their aggresive nature. Not
unusual to see a whole flock attacking other birds. I guess my point to
"Bird" is that they are not just nectar eaters as NZ does not have
sufficient flowering trees etc to sustain them in the winter as nectar is
really rocket fuel to help the breeding like the NZ native parrot which the
European wasp is flat out decimating. I forget which parrot it is that
requires some little fungus off tree trunks to "rocket" propel them into a
frisky mode and enables the mating urge. The wasp also loves the fungus as
it also propels them into stocking up on the nectar thus leaving none for
the Native parrot. (I wish I could remember which one it was, Kakahi???)
cheers y'all
cheers y'all
R Molony
Bob