Platycercus elegans

Crimson Rosella at Molonglo River Reserve

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Identification history

	Platycercus elegans	19 Sep 2018	natureguy
	Platycercus elegans	18 Sep 2018	JonSteinbeck

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I saw a pair of Crimson Rosellas who appeared very interested in a hollow of a dead pine tree. One looked like it was getting the top part of its body inside but I could not tell how wide the hollow was on the inside. It was possible they were looking at it as a nest but one of the birds looked to still be immature so it may be they were after food. Once the birds left I took a picture of the hollow from a different angle but the shadow still made it hard to determine the depth of the hollow into the tree. It did not appear as if the birds were using the hollow as a nest. A number of Common Starlings were also around the tree.

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Location information

Coordinates 149.071477 -35.305555
Altitude 540.0m
Maps Molonglo River Reserve
Places Molonglo Valley, ACT

Sighting information

2 Abundance
16 Sep 2018 08:06 AM Recorded on
JonSteinbeck Recorded by
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BIrdsinCanberra Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Parrots Birds

Species information

Platycercus elegans Scientific name
Crimson Rosella Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1248m Recorded at altitude
683 images trained Machine learning
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