15 Budgerigar at Tinderry, NSW
Identification history
| Melopsittacus undulatus | 25 Dec 2020 | MatthewFrawley | ||
| Melopsittacus undulatus | 25 Dec 2020 | TyrieStarrs |
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Significant sighting
natureguy noted:
26 Dec 2020
These birds appear to be wild Budgies, judging from many wild-plumaged birds and the remote location of the sighting away from where you would expect an escapee to be found. There seems to be an influx of Budgies to the ACT region at the moment. This is a rare occurrence as Budgies are typically found further inland and most Budgies recorded locally are escapees. COG says that wild Budgies would likely be found only in drought times to escape harsher conditions inland. It seems interesting that the birds are here this year when there is so much rain, maybe they are dispersing widely because of the large availability of food. There are records of wild Budgies in the ACT region but it is a very rare occurrence, especially considering there are now multiple records from different locations of groups of wild birds.
User's notes
4 comments
perhaps there are a few that live around there (or a nearby budgie farm with regular escapees).
The bird on the right hand side has a blue tail. I wonder whether that is an indication of escapees?
I also wonder whether off spring of escapees if they establish in the wild would be "falling back" to green? I don't know the genetics of bred budgies but I think it would be possible.
My son says he sees them often
Location information
- Coordinates 149.305230-35.728886
- Places Tinderry, NSW
Sighting information
- 6 Abundance
- 25 Dec 2020 01:31 PM Recorded on
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Species information
- Melopsittacus undulatus Scientific name
- Budgerigar Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Vagrant native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 645.1m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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