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Platycercus adscitus
It is a moderate-size parrot with a pale yellow head, predominantly white cheeks, scalloped black and gold back and pale blue underparts.
This bird is one of the pair that have been visiting me for 4 years now. They stick to one partner for their entire lives...
The one is eating sorghum from seeds I planted from bird-seed from local supermarket. The pair are eating dry-Basil seed that I let grow wild for the various seed-eating birds. For sorghum, wheat & others, I throw the birdseed around the fence-line & let nature (& the incredibly-strong, modern grain-seeds) take their course...
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