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For nearly a fortnight, we watched birds each morning and afternoon, as they came in to drink and/or bathe, to eat, to flaunt.
Most of the time, each particular drinking or bathing “event” involved just one species; when bathing, just one individual was usually in the bath at one time.
Occasionally, however….
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Both photos feature the same individual.
They were taken within two minutes of each other.
Q: are rosellas cockatoos?
A: no.
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The western rosella is the smallest of Australia’s six rosella species
It is also the most sexually dimorphic; it is not at all difficult to discern an adult western rosella’s gender – a marked contrast to other rosellas.
The male of the species is the more exuberantly-colourful, but the female’s more subtly-variegated plumage is at least as lovely.
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