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Long-billed Corella

There were a few of these guys lower down than the swifties. They were demolishing the new growth on the tree trunks in quite a methodical manner as well as ripping pieces of bark off the trunk. I imagine there is a purpose...

An interesting thing I learned while looking up the distribution of these birds is that originally they were confined to the extreme south-east of the country but now have populations in quite a few locations right up into Qld, central Australia and WA probably established from aviary escapees.

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Uploaded on March 17, 2017
Taken on August 12, 2014