Visiting Healesville Sanctuary’s Native Australian Birds

By Mel Vincent | August 30, 2012 |
Red-tailed Black Cockatoos

I did the tourist thing on the weekend. I live in Melbourne (Australia) and was entertaining an interstate visitor over the weekend. My friend just happens to be another bird person – so we thought it might be fun to have a look at Healesville Sanctuary while he was here. Healesville Sanctuary is unusual because…

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The Lorikeet Diet

By Mel Vincent | April 3, 2012 |
Eucalyptus Flowers

People who work with lorikeets tend to regularly complain about their bird’s poo. It’s a runny, sticky, noxious substance, that I half-jokingly argue has the corrosive power to melt concrete. If that’s not bad enough – lorikeets happily shoot it on a 45-degree angle. None of this business of a nice clean drop straight through a grille…

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