Poor Corellas

[martinw-48]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-19/wildlife-experts-question-why-huge-corella-flocks-on-coast/11...

Haven't seen a large flock in Coleraine for years now.
I actually miss their raucous presence.
I don't understand why everyone hates them so.
I much prefer to woken up by them than the nong with the V8 ute across the street

[bright.ton42]

And according to the ABC link they are indeed wanting   food, not doing what they  do 'just because they can'.   

Just another example of wildlife forced out of their habitat by humans and then being treated as the enemy.   

[joztamps]

I was outside very early one morning a while back, and a flock of cockatoos landed in a tree overhanging the unit across the laneway.

They promptly started ripping the gum tree to shreds, with bits, pieces and whole small branches landing on the roof of the verandah, making a hell of a racket (and mess).

After about 5 minutes the bloke comes bursting out of his front door in his dressing gown, holding a baseball bat.

He looks around, sees what the problem is, and visibly relaxes as the flock takes flight.

He looks across at me and says "Stop laughing you **bleep**, it's not funny, they woke me up and I thought I was back in bloody Vietnam again".

[go-tazz]

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@bright.ton42 wrote:

And according to the ABC link they are indeed wanting   food, not doing what they  do 'just because they can'.   

Just another example of wildlife forced out of their habitat by humans and then being treated as the enemy.   

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The ABC would probably get their info from some greeny and as they don't always check facts they just run

with what they've been told (which up here is not the case as there is plenty of feed for them).

We have state forest and there are thousands of trees around here but they choose to destroy single trees for

no other reason then being a detructive bird and because they can (they don't eat anything from those trees so

they are not a food source).

The latest trees that they have being nesting in are now also dead the same as the previous ones due to their

behavior and that will never change.

When you physically see what they do you can see how destructive they are.

[chameleon54]

Our home fronts onto a river gully that runs through our town. It has large areas of river red gums along with shrubs and swampy areas etc. In the summer, just on dusk each evening, a huge flock of corellas flies down the gully, across the roof of the house in preparation for roosting a kilometer or so away where the river forms an estuary with the sea. 

You can hear the flock coming from hundreds of metres away as the birds screech and squark. It takes a minute or two for the birds to fly over, just on sunset. Its absolutely brilliant and one of the highlights of living on the river. Occasionally the flock will stop over in a huge gum tree in the next door neighbours yard if it is in flower, dropping twigs, flowers and poo on the garage roof............ Corellas.......... Luv em.

[lyhargr_0]

Same thing happens here in Summer, Lorikeets,  Sulphur Cresteds, Galahs, Corellas, Black Cockys   ...... gets a tad noisy at times