Parrots everywhere!

[Kimma]

Since deciding to get a parrot, I've become hyper-aware of them.

When I walked to get lunch today I saw:

Corellas - either long-billed corellas or little corellas, they were too high up on a light pole to be able to tell. I would have assumed any large white parrot was a sulphur crested but now I'm looking more closely.
Rainbow lorikeets feeding on gum blossums
Galahs - the first I've seen in a while. They are much more common where I grew up, further inland.

I just wanted to share because I think it's so cool that there is such a variety in a suburban area like where I work.

 

[Betrisher]

Isn't it great? When I was growing up in the sixties, you just never ever saw a parrot. Then, slowly, they started to be seen more often in parks and gardens. Now, we get gorgeous flocks of them overhead and the marvellous sounds as they yell out to each other on the wing. I *love* it! The other good thing is that it's not just Galahs and Corellas: it's Lorikeets and Grass Parrots and Rosellas and even the odd Black Cockatoo. Now, if only a Night Parrot would flutter into my backyard...

 

[Kimma]

I don't think I've ever seen a grass parrot. I imagine they are harder to spot than some of the others.

I lived in Townsville for a while, and there are loads of black cockatoos there that hang out at the strand eating the fruit in the fig trees. I swear they'd try to drop the seeds on you if you stood under the trees.

 

[Mike17]

Grass parrots are more common inland. I used to have them feeding from my lawn in western NSW. They tend to be overlooked as they're small and blend in well. In Qld I suspect the corella would be "littles" as the long-billeds are more common in Sth NSW and Vic. If you can get close enough they're easy enough to tell apart, obviously the bill is different, but the long-billed has a lot of orange colouration.

 

[Birdman666]

We occasionally get a stray flocks of amazons, or the feral decendants of wild caught conures that were destined for the pet trade but never made it...

Other than that, if you see a parrot around here, it's someone's lost pet!

 

[thekarens]

Here we get Quakers....though as a birder they are called monk parakeets. In south Texas you can see the zons. I've got a video of hundreds of them bathing in this huge fountain and then roosting on the wires in McCallen. It's very cool.

 

[jugoya]

Austin has a thriving population of Quakers Birdman xP

 

[MonicaMc]

I think it's pretty awesome that there's a flock of green conures in Texas! I've seen the wild flock of cherry heads in San Francisco and even fed them by hand before the band! Missed the mitred flock on Maui, though...

Don't have any wild/feral/naturalized parrots around where I live though.... so the only ones that I might see would be someones escaped pet.... seen a cockatiel before, but couldn't get it...