WHAT BIRDS THEY ATTRACT
WHAT BIRDS THEY ATTRACT
The Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)
Time spent to teach this Bird can be rewarding as it is a highly intelligent bird, they are well known in aviculture (Caged bird ), although they can be demanding pets.
The Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)
These Parrots also known as the pink and grey, is one of the most common and widespread cockatoos, and it can be found in open country in almost all parts of mainland Australia.
It is endemic on the mainland and was introduced to Tasmania, where its distinctive pink and grey plumage and its bold and loud behavior make it a familiar sight in the bush and increasingly in urban areas. It appears to have benefited from the change in the landscape since European colonization and may be replacing the Major Mitchell's cockatoo in parts of its range.
The term Galah is derived from gilaa, a word found in Yuwaalaraay and neighbouring Aboriginal languages.
The Rainbow Loriket (Trichoglossus)
The rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) is a species of parrot found in Australia. It is common along the eastern seaboard, from northern Queensland to South Australia. Its habitat is rainforest, coastal bush and woodland areas. Several taxa traditionally listed as subspecies of the rainbow lorikeet are now treated as separate species.
superfamily.
The genus is distributed widely through Australia, Wallacea and Melanesia, with outliers in the Philippines and Micronesia. Members of the genus are characterised by barring, sometimes prominently, on the upper breast.
The scaly-breasted lorikeet (Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus)
is an Australian lorikeet found in woodland in eastern Australia. The common name aptly describes this bird, which has yellow breast feathers broadly edged with green that look like scales.
This lorikeet is common in most timbered areas of Eastern Australia from Bamaga, the tip of North Queensland, south to Illawarra district on the New South Wales south coast; also on some offshore islands. They are generally confined to coastal plains and adjacent tablelands; occasionally found along watercourses west of the Great Dividing Range. They are abundant and mostly sedentary in north; less numerous and nomadic in the south. They favour open, lightly timbered areas and melaleuca thickets.
The red-rumped parrot (Psephotus haematonotus)
Male
Female
The red-rumped parrot also known as the red-backed parrot or grass parrot, is a common bird of south-eastern Australia, particularly in the Murray-Darling Basin and the Lockyer Valley.
The cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus)
The cockatiel alsoknown as miniature cockatoo, weero, or quarrion, is a bird that is a member of its own branch of the cockatoo family endemic to Australia. They are prized as household pets and companion parrots throughout the world and are relatively easy to breed. As a caged bird, cockatiels are second in popularity only to the budgerigar.
The cockatiel is the only member of the genus Nymphicus. It was previously considered a crested parrot or small cockatoo; however, more recent molecular studies have assigned it to its own subfamily, Nymphicinae. It is, therefore, now classified as the smallest of the Cacatuidae (cockatoo family). Cockatiels are native to Australia, and favour the Australian wetlands, scrublands, and bush lands.
The Australian king parrot (Alisterus scapularis)
The red and Green Parrot is endemic to eastern Australia ranging from Cooktown in Queensland to Port Campbell in Victoria. Found in humid and heavily forested upland regions of the eastern portion of the continent, including eucalyptus wooded areas in and directly adjacent to subtropical and temperate rainforest. They feed on fruits and seeds gathered from trees or on the ground.
More Common Birds
Magpie
Noisy Miner
This is a grey bird, with a black head, orange-yellow beak and feet, a distinctive yellow patch behind the eye and white tips on the tail feathers. The noisy miner primarily inhabits dry, open eucalypt forests that lack understory shrubs.
They are territorial birds and defend territory communally, forming colonies that can contain several hundred birds. They mainly eat nectar, fruit and insects.
They make a territorial Noise when there are predators around like Snakes. If you get to know what Squawking noise for what Predator is near by, you will soon learn what is lurking around in your yard.
With
a few simple steps, you can transform your garden into a small bird
paradise.
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