![]() ![]() The Rose-breasted Cockatoo should be fed a less oil in their diet (which comes from sunflower seeds and other oily seeds) than other cockatoos since they can develop fatty tumors known as lipomas.Īs an added source of advanced vitamins, you should introduce fresh common fruits and green vegetables. They eat a variety of seeds, nuts, fruits, and commercial pellets, as well as the same nutritional foods humans eat. Many birds can spend most of their time on a play pen or parrot perch. The Galah is a sturdy and robust bird that adapts well to climate changes due to its adaptation to the dry environments of central Australia.Ī roomy cage is required unless the bird is to be let out for extended periods. O yay! A little bit of good sense! Mind you, I'm *busting* to know what kinds of mammals are using the tree, but still have no clue.They are incredibly intelligent and like human company, as well as learning new skills to amaze their owner. At first, I thought they were going to cut it down, but I've since found out they're stopping people from going near it because it contains so many bird and mammal nests. The area's far too scary to go there at night with a spotlight!Īs it happens, that very same tree (a hunormous old Blackbutt with a diameter wider than I am tall), has been fenced off by the council. O yay! A little bit of good sense! Mind you, I'm *busting* to know what kinds of mammals are using the tree, but still have no clue. Philistines!Īs it happens, that very same tree (a hunormous old Blackbutt with a diameter wider than I am tall), has been fenced off by the council. Despite my surprised hopping about and gesticulating, not one person with me was the slightest bit interested. But there it was! It flew down to the drain, took a long drink and then flew back to the nest-hole where it's mate was waiting in the doorway. I nearly fainted the day I saw a PHR coming out of a tree-hole! They're not at all common in my area and certainly unheard-of in the city. Most people have absolutely no idea what's going on over their heads because they go to look at the roses. There are all sorts of parrots nesting there including SC2s, LB Corellas, Galahs and Pale Headed Rosellas, among others. There's a park near where I live and, aside from a well-known and beautifully maintained rose garden, it has numerous very old gum-trees in it. I'm not sure what the law is in NSW about Galahs - I don't *think* you have to have a licence, but I equally don't think it could possibly be legal to steal them from nests either. #Galah cockatoo price for free#So, like other bird species specifically and many non-bird species generally, they can be advantaged by human land-use changes or disadvantaged either by land clearance (loss of habitat and/or food source), direct predation (yummy to eat) or feral animals/birds.ĭad was given Dominic and three siblings for free when farm dogs routed his nest (in a rotten fencepost) and killed his parents. They are a pest in WA, too, and often shot, WA is well outside their natural range, apparently they are naturalised in Tasmania, too (Yay!!). ![]() #Galah cockatoo price plus#where they were out of their natural range, but attracted by changes in land use (farming, market gardens and horse paddocks) plus of course all the free bird food! They also inhabit golf courses, and as they are diggers (liking roots, bulbs etc) they are rather unpopular with golfers (and greenkeepers ). Over here quarrions are called weero/weiro and I suspect that's an onamatapoeic name like 28.Īs for the long-bills, when I was last at Bird World in NW Sydney there were dozens hanging around under the cages and on the grounds. At my last posting in NSW they were Mallee Ringnecks. I like "28" for one of the races of the Port Lincoln Parrot, since that's their call! We get them around here although strictly speaking it's the Pilbara something-or-other since 28s are further south. Yeah, I think those "descriptive" names are rather boring and silly when the birds have a perfectly nice "native" name (presumably from one of the many Aboriginal languages in the case of the galah). ![]()
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