CRIMSON ROSELLAS AND KING PARROTS.

AUSTRALIAN BIRDS OF MY AREA.

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*CRIMSON ROSELLAS AND KING PARROTS.*


CRIMSON ROSELLAS. I have put Crimson Rosellas and King Parrots on the same page as they both have the same habitat,feeding and nesting characteristics.Also I tend to see them together. In my garden,at least, the Crimson Rosella is a permanent resident.A group of about half a dozen are always here when I put out the parrot seed for them in the morning.There are plenty of hollow trees in the area for nesting. They are so common here that you tend to take their beautiful coloured plumage for granted. Like all of the rosellas and King Parrots,they have two kinds of call - the harsh screech for warning or communication at a distance;and the very melodious,bell-like song which they do when they are content and the events of the day are not pressing. As well as the seed I put out for them each day,they particularly enjoy eating the seeds and berries on the shrubs around my house.In spring and summer they will be on the grass eating the seeding grasses.Unlike some of the other species of birds that visit my garden, the Crimson Rosella has everything it needs here,so there is never a time of the year when they are absent. In the spring,they have their young which are quite dowdy in their feathers compared with the mature bird.The young bird is a sort of dull green colour. These birds are my constant companions in the garden and I would miss their colour and tuneful song if they left.		Enter content here




KING PARROT. Its easy to see why these birds are called 'King Parrots'. Their colours are sumptious,especially at close range. I am lucky to have had a pair of them who regularly visit my garden in spring and summer. They are true parrots in that they are larger birds than the Rosella. The pair that visit me usually have a brood of four or five youngsters every Spring,who are a dull green colour until they get their adult plummage. My pair are quite spoilt. I think other residents in the area fete them also because they expect special treatment. Competing with the other birds on the seed shelf in the garden is not for them;they fly onto the balustrade outside the kitchen window and make it clear that they expect to be hand-fed.And they don't like waiting either. On the few occasions when I have not been able to take seed out to them within a couple of minutes, they have flown away and not returned for days or even weeks. They are very used to people as I have had them sit on my hand to eat the seed.The black sunflower seed is their favourite. Usually they are friendly and make little parrot noises as they eat the seed. One day, however, when mister parrot was eating seed on the balustrade, his wife came up respectfully behind to try to get a little seed and he turned around and pecked her angrily.True love is not always smooth,even in the parrot family! < THUMBNAIL PAGE.