Originally posted by popcornbird


Zan, you are SO lucky you have parrots instead of sparrows in your yard! LUCKY!!!!! I've heard of gallahs but I've never seen them, nor have a clue of what they look like. Do wild tiels, keets, and cockatoos also fly around in your area? I know they are native to Australia. Are the wild ones only in the forest or in cities like we have sparrows, doves, and pigeons flying around here in North America?
These are what galahs look like:

They're really noisy little critters, and since our house backs onto a school oval lined with eucalypts they roost there and chatter to each other at sunset and dawn.
But no, I've never seen wild cockatiels or budgies. We do get rainbow lorikeets in a lot, though, and they're sweet. If you have a bird bath in your backyard you can teach them to be quite tame, I've heard, but I've never tried it. And we get cockatoos flying over too! Boy can they make a racket! Have you ever heard one? They have this throaty, deep call. It sounds kinda cool when they're flying around and in the bush, but I don't know if I could cope with one for a pet!
But asides from that we just get basically what you get - sparrows, pigeons etc. We get them especially in our backyard since I have guinea pigs who spread a lot of seeds over the lawn, and they have like a communal feed there every day
And no, I don't live in the outback...I live in a suburb about thirty minutes from the city. It's pretty cool the birds we get around here. Although we don't get any like the wedge tailed eagle or anything...no way would they be hanging in the 'burbs