Sunday, July 5, 2009

King Parrot

Another shot from our holiday down in the Otways in 2007. The place we stayed at had 1000s of these birds around. They were almost tame enough to eat out of your hand!

9 comments:

  1. What a beautiful bird. Good capture.

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  2. Polly what a cracker?! Handsome photo!

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  3. @all: Thanks for the comments/compliments.

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  4. What an amazing color for a bird! So unique!

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  5. I think that is a male King Parrot. The females are a dull shade of green.

    Good shot!

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  6. Wow, what a color! Great photo... it looks as if the bird's posing for the photo...

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  7. Loved the bright red color! Nice capture!

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