Birds Pink and Grey Galah

[Ralph]

These are a favourite bird of mine due to a couple of thing but the main thing is that they know how to enjoy life.
When there is a mob of them together like on grassed ovals you will sooner or later you will see a few of them rolling about with each other
play fighting. For me it is a good time to just watch them doing this.

• ILCE-7M3
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
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• ILCE-7M3
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• 383.4 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 200

• ILCE-7M3
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• 383.4 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 200

• ILCE-7M3
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 200

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• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• 368.4 mm
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• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• 141.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 200

• ILCE-7M3
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• 141.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 200

• ILCE-7M3
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 200

• ILCE-7M3
• 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Contemporary 020
• 250.8 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 200

 

[AlphaWorld]

Might be worth mentioning that galahs are always pink and grey.

They gather in numbers, and can be fairly raucous (think “football crowd”

I have been startled a couple of times walking close to a tree when a whole mob of galahs took flight - they are loud (although I have been told that the sulphur crested cockatoo is louder).

 

[Richard A]

We have galahs, corellas and sulphur crested cockatoos around here, however I have noticed numbers increasing recently. I think they are coming in from the country looking for food and water as it has been so dry here since Christmas. I like all the cockatoos.

 

[Ralph]

Might be worth mentioning that galahs are always pink and grey.

They gather in numbers, and can be fairly raucous (think “football crowd”

I have been startled a couple of times walking close to a tree when a whole mob of galahs took flight - they are loud (although I have been told that the sulphur crested cockatoo is louder).

I am sure people here would know that they are always these colour as to their name. In all honesty I have not heard them being overly loud like the Corella's and Sulphur Crested Cockatoo. We have mobs of Corella's fly from their rooting spot to their food spot by the river and you hear them well befor seeing them so unlike the Galah's.The loudest I have heard them is when one has flown to a tree I was walking to and it started to squark as in to tell me to take its photo and once I did it flew of no joke.

We have galahs, corellas and sulphur crested cockatoos around here, however I have noticed numbers increasing recently. I think they are coming in from the country looking for food and water as it has been so dry here since Christmas. I like all the cockatoos.

Here we have the same but our populations are steady as we have the river. But if you are a fisherman you never sit under a tree where there are Sulphur Crested Cockatoo's as they snap off branches as thick as your finger and they just drop down making it so dangerous. But now I just take photo's of them and forgot about fishing.

 

[evacguy]

These are a favourite bird of mine due to a couple of thing but the main thing is that they know how to enjoy life.
When there is a mob of them together like on grassed ovals you will sooner or later you will see a few of them rolling about with each other
play fighting. For me it is a good time to just watch them doing this.
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I remember as a kid in the outer western suburbs of Melbourne, mobs of Cockatoo's and Galah's would descend on our fruit and nut trees in our backyard and pick them clean. My mum would try chasing them off, but to no avail!

 

[Richard A]

I remember as a kid in the outer western suburbs of Melbourne, mobs of Cockatoo's and Galah's would descend on our fruit and nut trees in our backyard and pick them clean. My mum would try chasing them off, but to no avail!

Yes, they certainly love that sort of stuff!