How strange!

[LoveMyParrots]

Just joining in the fun! And feels like drawing right now! So I just drew Fargo! I'm sorry that the colour is very bad, I only had a pencil, blue, green and a yellow (it suppose to be gold), I'll do a better one tomorrow when I have all of my colour pencils.

 

[Thingamagigs]

You may have stumbled across a galah creche A bunch of young galahs which hang out together once they fledge and before the breeding season is over and parents are ready to move on. Maybe their minders were checking you out to make sure you weren't going to eat any of their unruly babies LOL

There was a galah at my daughters school who was very curious especially when I walked by he would fly down to the lower head height branches and show off a leaf or stick LOL I was sad when he seemed to have moved on.

My thoughts on your mystery bird were most likely a pale headed rosella

maaaaaybe a superb parrot

Or unlikely but still possible... maybe a yellow king parrot

None of them are normally seen interacting with galahs though, other than sharing a food or water source

One possibility comes to mind ...though if its true you saw something rarer than a mutation...
The small cockatoos (galahs, major mitchells and corellas) have been known to drive out current nest occupants (other small cockatoos and medium sized aussie parrots) seemingly unaware or otherwise not at all bothered by current eggs of another species in the nest. They often happily raise any surviving chicks as their own. Its been regularly observed with major mitchells, galahs and corellas which is how they explain hybridisation of those species in the wild. Babies raised by the foster species learn their foster parents mannerisms and contact call. Their theory is these birds are happy to go on and pair with either their own species or the foster species. Which doesn't explain why their partner is happy to pair with them I personally think all small cockatoos are just free loving hippies!

Could a galah raise a rosella? Possible, but not probable... but its a cute possibility. ^_^

My corella learnt the contact call of the black cockatoo he lived next to while being handreared. It would have been nice to know this prior to his purchase... because I thought I would get a corella with a lovely quavering contact call and various peeps and coos. But I now have a corella with a black cockatoo contact call. And very unhappy neighbours. Yay for me Keep your fingers crossed that they don't contact council, or that he discovers his inner corella soon!!

 

[JerseyWendy]

Ok i am absolutely TERRIBLE at drawing
but here is a picture i just drew of the colouring haha

He had a full yellow head, then the body and tail exactly like a cockatiel, but was reddy underneath!

I might go bird watching this afternoon and see if i can find it again!!

I can't believe anybody can't make a positive ID on this drawing.

 

[WharfRat]

ROFLMAO!!! @Tab, you pretty much got the wild hair right!!! :54::18:

 

[JerseyWendy]

ROFLMAO!!! @Tab, you pretty much got the wild hair right!!! :54::18:

Uh-ooh....did somebody shower with the hair dryer on again?

 

[ConureCrazy]

You guys are AMAZING! LOL This has totally made my day!

 

[WharfRat]

Uh-ooh....did somebody shower with the hair dryer on again?

ummmm What's a hair dryer????

Ok, now imagine when it was down to my shoulder blades!!!! (When wet) :11:

Had really long hair til I turned 40, still miss it.:54:

 

[JerseyWendy]

Ok, now imagine when it was down to my shoulder blades!!!! (When wet) :11:

Talk is cheap. We need pictures, Scott.

 

[WharfRat]

I wish, Ike got all my old pics (non-digital) and trust me, I had a TON, definitely the one thing Ike got that I'll never recover.

All my old animal pics, all my cabinetry/woodwork from my carpenter days, boats, childhood, etc....the list is long.

 

[wenz2712]

I have just been reading through this thread I needed a laugh today

Tab and Yasmine.. I love your drawings.. Believe me, they are no worse than what my mine would be

 

[tab_xo]

Lovemyparrots i love that drawing!! so cute

HAHAHAHA WHARF!!! I GOT YOUR HAIR PERFECT!!!!

Thank you Wendy, I am not sure why people arent seeing the time and effort i took into drawing that bird

Thingamagigs we actually do have king parrots here!!!
Thank you so much, that was so informative
Oh really?! so you have a black cockatoo in a corellas body! haha
Fingers crossed he learns to call like a corella soon!!

 

[JerseyWendy]

Thank you Wendy, I am not sure why people arent seeing the time and effort i took into drawing that bird
...
Fingers crossed he learns to call like a corella soon!!

I just had a VERY long, hard look at your picture. I mean HOW HARD can it be to identify an Aussie parrot with only 3 toes on each foot? :54:

As for Fargo learning to mimic the Corellas. Perhaps YOU can teach him?

 

[tab_xo]

Hahahaahahahah! :52: Woops! :54: Thats how i got taught as a kid!!! 3 little sticks for legs...

Noo! I was meaning thingamagigs corellas needs to learn how to call like a corella

Fargo will probably learn how to call like a galah soon though, they are always flying by talking to him, he always gets this panicked look on his face! They are problem teasing him :09:

 

[ConureCrazy]

She forgot the toes, and only I got a nose! XD

 

[tab_xo]

Well, i apologise that im no leonardo da vinci!!!! >.< hahahaha

Although, are you guys ready for this... In grade 6, our grade entered all our picasso drawings into the town show... and that was for all schools in our area, so you know, maybe 300 entries....
I GOT FIRST PLACE! thank you.. thank you. :22:

And crazy, woops! i think wharf and i must be voldermort then! :54:

 

[ConureCrazy]

I'm Hermoine. LOL

 

[WharfRat]

griffendor lol

 

[ConureCrazy]

ROFLMBO!!! Nutters!

 

[tab_xo]

LOL I think wharf would be Hagrid, maybe just a skinnier version :09: hahahahaha :54:

Who am I ? :22:

I liked the Harry potter movies, until number 5, from then on i didnt like them, but LOVED the books

 

[ConureCrazy]

Umm... A girl version of Harry, and instead of Hedwig you have Fargo!

And Wharf is definitely Hagrid!