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JokerGirl
8th of December 2008 (Mon), 17:42
Took some photos of my butthead parrot, Sam, yesterday.

Enjoy!

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http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s110/JokerGirlsPhotos/IMG_02431.jpg

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dpastern
9th of December 2008 (Tue), 06:38
Good shots, looks like a female. Did she just have a moult as well, the cere looks a bit rough and new?

Dave
JokerGirl
9th of December 2008 (Tue), 06:47
Thanks :) Actually he is a male :) You can tell by the presence of red on the wings. He did just molt, and still is a tad bit. Mainly his head is driving him up the wall right now.

This was taken with my old A95, but you can see all the red on his wings :)

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dpastern
9th of December 2008 (Tue), 06:54
Ah cool! I thought he was a female because of the eyes - many of our Australian female parrots have eyes similar to that. Does he make a bit of noise? Our Galah is pretty quiet these days, but when she was younger, she'd go crazy sometimes and make a racket!

Dave
JokerGirl
9th of December 2008 (Tue), 07:20
Ohhh you have a Galah! I hate you! That's the one parrot I've wanted all my life, but they are SO expensive here.

Neat tidbit for you, the White Fronted Amazon, like Sam, is one of only 2 Amazon parrots that is sexually dimorphic :)

He used to be a lot noisier, but is also calming down with age. He'll be 6 in April. It was especially bad when he got to about 4 years when his hormones really started to hit him.

How old is your Galah?
dpastern
9th of December 2008 (Tue), 07:37
I had to look up what dimorphic meant!!! Most Australian parrots have females and males that look reasonably different, or at least to the trained eyes.

Galahs, being Aussie birds, are pretty common here, and not too expensive. Plus, many Aussies are galahs as well ;-) (galah is Aussie slang for a silly idiot). Freda is an unknown age, but I got her in 1983. So she's 25 at least, probably a good number of years older. Cockatoos and Galahs can live up to 80 or so years apparently, although birds that old aren't common. Freda was noisier when she had her cage mate, Fred, who sadly passed away around 8 years ago :( These days she's mostly quiet, but she does chirp when you talk to her.

Dave