Rainbow Lorikeet

[samvara]

The reading I've done says they mate for life and that it's hard to tell the girls from the boys.

This little guy or gal seems to live in the palm tree outside CBD on Hay St. There were two pairs keen on it and two days ago a parrot was killed. Having watched these parrots for over two years now I'm inclined to believe it was hit while engaged in a knockdown brawl with another lorikeet on the road. I assume this is it's partner; it has been sitting up there watching the road.

They are feisty little things. The one time I had close contact with a stunned one that a truck driver rescued, it bit me through leather garden gloves then swore at me extensively in Parrot.