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Title: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: GGV8Cruza on January 21, 2013, 11:15:04 AM
This bird has decided to call the building site home, just wondering what type if it accurately and what could be done to help find an owner. It has a blue ring around one leg with "Kelly 15" on it

GG
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: Bird on January 21, 2013, 11:16:00 AM
Try calling local vet's as people usually start looking there for lost pets.
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: BigJules on January 21, 2013, 11:21:02 AM
and if a quiet enquiry doesn't reveal an owner, I'd be looking on Gumtree for a cage. Nice bird, great pet.
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: Bird on January 21, 2013, 11:22:56 AM
and if a quiet enquiry doesn't reveal an owner, I'd be looking on Gumtree for a cage. Nice bird, great pet.
theres a cheap shop near home that has full sized cages cheap if ya need!
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: Mrs smith on January 21, 2013, 11:40:06 AM
If it's not sick or injured, why dose it need to be caged ? Enjoy it for what
it is and leave it for others to have the same experience.

Nice looking bird, thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: MDSimpson on January 21, 2013, 11:40:59 AM
Looks like a Rainbow Lorikeet... but the colours are darker than normal...
Looks friendly enough...
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: Bird on January 21, 2013, 11:46:05 AM
If it's not sick or injured, why dose it need to be caged ? Enjoy it for what
it is and leave it for others to have the same experience.
coz if he is still in Box Hill working, it will become a #5 with rice.
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: GGV8Cruza on January 21, 2013, 11:48:27 AM
coz if he is still in Box Hill working, it will become a #5 with rice.

Not at Box Hill at the moment Lost, job is on hold, closer to the city in Nth Melbourne. He is as tame as, if you walk out of the office he flys after you and lands on your shoulder

GG
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: Bird on January 21, 2013, 12:01:27 PM
Quote from: GGPatrol
Not at Box Hill at the moment Lost, job is on hold, closer to the city in Nth Melbourne. He is as tame as, if you walk out of the office he flys after you and lands on your shoulder
Then its someones pet fer sure...
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: MarkGU on January 21, 2013, 12:05:27 PM
im nearly positive its a conure, not sure of the exact name but in process of finding out. watch this space.
Title: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: BigJules on January 21, 2013, 12:49:07 PM
I think it's a juvenile Lorikeet. Ive only seen Golden Conures, but this looks like a native species.
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: MarkGU on January 21, 2013, 01:00:04 PM
I think it's a juvenile Lorikeet. Ive only seen Golden Conures, but this looks like a native species.
Jules......having owned lorikeets as pets before  the top of the beak looks too wide and overall it looks too long imo
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: Mace on January 21, 2013, 01:05:58 PM
Its a red bellied, blue neck, golden crested speewa parrot!

Mutant form of something  ???
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: MarkGU on January 21, 2013, 01:07:03 PM
i reckon its this one Jules ............Blue-throated Conure (Pyrrhura cruentata)
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: MDSimpson on January 21, 2013, 01:29:59 PM
I'd say you were pretty spot on there...
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: GGV8Cruza on January 21, 2013, 02:00:12 PM
Just took it down to the local vet, hopefully they can find the owner of  the bird, they had no idea of species

A couple of other shots for the bird lovers

GG
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: noel_w on January 21, 2013, 02:10:16 PM
Watch the keyboard on the laptop  ;D , Might need a clean afterward.  :laugh:
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: Bird on January 21, 2013, 02:27:28 PM
if not claimed in a few days you get to keep it?

Would be sweet
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: MarkGU on January 21, 2013, 02:28:01 PM
put the two pics together.
i reckon the one you have GG is a young bird,probably why he is so tame and friendly.
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: jeb1900 on January 21, 2013, 02:51:29 PM
Nice bird, it's amazing that he somehow escaped his owners. 
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: Kit_e_kat9 on January 21, 2013, 02:56:14 PM


If it's tame then it's been hand raised.  Someone will definitely be looking for it.  Personally, the local vet isn't your best Lost & Found for animals.  Head to the RSPCA website pronto and list it as Found.

Kit_e
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: speewa158 on January 21, 2013, 05:15:26 PM
Its a red bellied, blue neck, golden crested speewa parrot!

Mutant form of something  ???
& its endangered to , it cant spell  but its really thirsth  :cheers:
Title: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: BigJules on January 21, 2013, 05:48:38 PM
I believe you're correct Mark.
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: Variflex on January 21, 2013, 06:57:24 PM
Give the recent fires in Melbourne I would suggest it may have flown a fair distance from home
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: fishfinder on January 21, 2013, 08:01:56 PM
its an emu -
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: xcvator on January 21, 2013, 08:05:58 PM
GG,If that bird bonds with you , you've got a camping mate for the next twenty years  :laugh:
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: JU5T1N on January 21, 2013, 08:27:50 PM
I agree with Navara04 looks like a Blue-throated Conure (Ochre-marked Parakeet).
Native of the rain forests in Brasil.
Classed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List due to forrest degradation
Value around $500.
Make awesome pets & its not native to AU.
Pity your so far away I've got the perfect cage, a few years ago we had a Nanday Conure.
Amazingly he suddenly got super powers and bit his cage lock off when we were at the hospital.
"Theres no way it was the workers out side our back fence that day"...so their boss said   >:(
Title: Re: What bird is this, family pet for sure
Post by: GGV8Cruza on January 21, 2013, 08:36:41 PM
Give the recent fires in Melbourne I would suggest it may have flown a fair distance from home

I think that may be possible, its tail feathers were a little strange, looked like heat had been to blame.

GG