Female red-rumped parrot (Psephotus haematonotus) this afternoon foraging on #BoonWurrungCountry at Braeside Park, south eastern suburbs of Narrm/Melbourne, Australia
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#NotAParrot #Wrensday Adult female superb fairywren (Malurus cyaneus) gathers a fine strand of grass, Jells Park #BoonWurrungCountry, Glen Waverley, eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia
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After a few days of hot weather, Melbourne today is cooler, grey and damp, ideal for floofing oneself up and chilling. Sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) on #BoonWurrungCountry, Jells Park, eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia
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Eastern rosella (Platycercus eximius) keeps cool in the shade of our neighbour's Liquidambar tree on #BoonWurrungCountry, south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia
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Sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) digs deep for some tasty roots - most likely a corm of introduced onion grass (Romulea rosea) - on #BoonWurrungCountry in the foreshore camping area at Rosebud, 80km south of Melbourne, Australia
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Male yellow-tailed black-cockatoo (Zanda funerea) with flockmates on a feeding stop under pine trees in the grounds of Sandringham Secondary College, #BoonWurrungCountry, south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. An adult male can be distinguished by the red eye ring, dark bill, and less distinct yellow ear patch (compared to females and juveniles)
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Adult female glossy black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami) holds a she-oak (Allocasuarina species) 'cone' in its very powerful bill before breaking it open and extracting the seeds with its tongue, on #BoonWurrungCountry at The Pines Flora and Fauna Reserve, Frankston, 40km south east of Melbourne, Australia
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Sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) framed by wattle flowers in springtime on #BoonWurrungCountry, Braeside Park, SE suburbs of Melbourne, Australia
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Long-billed corella (Cacatua tenuirostris) holding a corm of introduced onion grass (Romulea rosea) it has just excavated from a field at Albert Park on #BoonWurrungCountry, South Melbourne, Australia
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Little corellas (Cacatua sanguinea) inspect electrical connections on a street light in Caulfield, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia #BoonWurrungCountry. (Note: We strongly recommend the use of a licensed electrician for any electrical work, not these clowns)
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Adult female yellow-tailed black-cockatoo (Zanda funerea) uses its powerful bill to tear open a fallen pine cone in search of the seeds, on #BoonWurrungCountry at Sandringham Secondary College in the bayside suburbs of Melbourne, Australia #ownpic #birds #parrots #cockatoos #BirdPhotography #birdwatching #AustralianBirds #WildOz
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#NotAParrot An impossibly cute dusky moorhen chick (Gallinula tenebrosa) uses its oversized feet to 'walk on water' in a wetland area on #BoonWurrungCountry at Jells Park in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia
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A rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) - a specialist pollen and nectar feeder - stretches to reach a eucalypt flower with its brush-tipped tongue; the genus name Trichoglossus literally means "hairy-tongued". On #BoonWurrungCountry, Heatherton, SE suburbs of Melbourne, Australia
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Rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) inspecting some real estate - a potential nesting hollow in the trunk of a large eucalypt tree - on #BoonWurrungCountry at Braeside Park, SE suburbs of Melbourne, Australia
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Galahs (Eolophus roseicapilla) visiting a tall eucalypt in our neighbourhood look flustered after being made to feel less than welcome by aggressive local rainbow lorikeets (out of shot), #BoonWurrungCountry, bayside suburbs of Melbourne, Australia
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Sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) foraging for roots and corms in a grassy field on #BoonWurrungCountry, Werribee, SW of Melbourne, Australia #ownpic #birds #parrots #cockatoos #BirdPhotography #birdwatching #AustralianBirds #WildOz
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A visiting galah (Eolophus roseicapilla) forages among the memorial plaques in a lawn at Springvale Botanical Cemetery and Crematorium on #BoonWurrungCountry in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia #ownpic #birds #parrots #cockatoos #BirdPhotography #birdwatching #WildOz #AustralianBirds
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Long-billed corella (Cacatua tenuirostris) foraging on a grassy bank outside the soccer stadium in Albert Park on #BoonWurrungCountry, South Melbourne, Australia #ownpic #birds #parrots #cockatoos #BirdPhotography #birdwatching #WildOz #AustralianBirds
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Immature male red-rumped parrots (Psephotus haematonotus) bathing in an ephemeral waterway on #BoonWurrungCountry, Braeside Park, SE suburbs of Melbourne, Australia #ownpic #birds #parrots #BirdPhotography #birdwatching #WildOz #AustralianBirds
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Rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus coluccanus) feeding on lerp, small sugary casings made by the larvae of leaf-sucking psyllid insects, in a eucalypt on #BoonWurrungCountry at Mordialloc, bayside suburbs of Melbourne, Australia #ownpic #birds #parrots #lorikeets #BirdPhotography #birdwatching #WildOz #AustralianBirds
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