parrots in Oz

[ROYJOY]

send me one of those red tailed black toos. i think the white speckles are stunning.

[phoenixwaller]

Originally Posted by Ashling

hahaha I just look out the window to watch that wildlife! Here we have sulphur crested cockatoos, red-tailed-black cockatoos, yello-tailed-black cockatoos, gang gangs, crimson rosallas, eastern rosellas, rainbow lorikeets (like Ashling), musk lorikeets and corellas! And I live in the suburbs!

Soooo Jealous! I look out the window and see little house sparrows, pigeons and I get to listen to the ravens complain all day. (i SWEAR all the ravens ever do is complain)

now to bring this back to topic... I'll have to watch the schedule for the re-airing. thanks

[Tommaso]

Yes, I saw it. It was great. Lots of pretty birds. It's so cool to see them in the living in the wild.

Morena

[Courtzrocks]

Ravens are like crows hey? We get those too and Currawongs and butcher birds which kill baby birds...butcher birds are so cute though and make a really nice sound. We get top notch pigeons and turtle necked doves, noisy minors and indian minors..yuck (yuck is for the minors)..but then yeah we get the rosellas and lorikeets and galahs and too's and etc lol.

[RoInGa]

I just saw it Tues night, here. I don't have a dvr anymore so I had to watch LIVE tv (oh, how quickly we spoil!). It was fascinating to see wild parrots. Being a tiel person now, I was a bit disappointed to see only a one-or-two second shot of a cockatiel, but lots of other interesting wild flocks and behaviors.

I did feel rather sorry for some of the farmers. I've seen what one cockatoo can do to a block of wood. To see dozens to hundreds descend on a grain storage shed, and start ripping up a metal or rubber or canvas roof--wow. I've always --and please don't beat on me if you're a budgie person--but I've always been a little more intimidated by budgies than I have by macaws. There's something about them -- maybe a bossy attitude--that is hmmm. Seeing them in huge wild flocks gave me almost a chill. Those little guys en mass are really something.

Not a great show, but a good one. I say not great only in that it was part Australian travelogue, too. A little too many long shots of lots of scenery. I know that's what brings in the donations during pledgedrive, but show me the birds!

Ro

[Alexp]

That lizard would've been a perentie..........Oz's biggest lizard, related the goana.

[habs71]

Originally Posted by ROYJOY

who saw the "nature" series last night? it was about the parrots of OZ. great show. lots of toos, budgies, eckies, rosellas, and more. its a must see next time around. check your public brodcasting chanels.

Watching it now.

Skip

[Iochroma]

This documentary is set to be re-broadcast in many part of the U.S. again on Sunday the 19th of October.

Nice to see so many many of Australia's rare (and not-so-rare) parrots acting naturally in the docu. Set your DVRs.

Nice also to hear from bird-keepers there too ;-)

Cheers

[BigBird]

Another really good one to watch is Land of Parrots. Available at ABC shop. Beautiful footage of budgies, eckies, galahs, sulphers, palm cockatoos etc in the wild. Really spectacular.