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Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike

Black-Backed Magpie

Chestnut Teal

Crested Pigeon

Domestic Pigeon

Eastern Rosella

Figbird

Galah

Little Corella

Noisy Miners

Rainbow Lorikeets

Grey Butcher Bird

Scaley Breasted Lorikeet

Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus

Personal Notes: These Lorikeets are becoming more difficult to find and experts suspect it may be due to the widening range and increased numbers of the Rainbow Lorikeets who share food sources and habitats but are more aggressive.

This example was feeding on Molenberg ten-grain bread with two Rainbow Lorikeets. There was no obvious conflict although the Scaley-breasted Lorikeet was running about like a poor cousin at a barbecue trying to get as much as he could before the others.

Distribution: Eastern Australia, from near Cooktown, Qld south to about Woollongong, NSW.

Notes: Also called Green-and-gold Lorikeet and Greenie. Usually in flocks inhabiting open forests (I rarely see more than a pair at a time) and cultivated fields. It is nomadic, and often occurs in mixed flocks with the "Bluey" -Rainbow Lorikeet (we see that often)

Food: nectar, pollen flowers and fruits; like the Rainbow Lorikeet will come to feeding stations for sweet mash.

Nest: In a hole in a tree. Eggs. Two; white. Breeding Season: May to December