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Anybody care to expand on the 'Paradise Parrot' reference . .

It's gone over my head . .

Not that it's difficult to confuse me

arthur wrote:Anybody care to expand on the 'Paradise Parrot' reference . .

It's gone over my head . .

Not that it's difficult to confuse me

Happy to oblige, but if I was to tell you then I'd have to kill you!

The Paradise Parrot nonsense refers to a local mate who makes great use of the F word (in any and every context). He has golden shoulders, mulgas, hoodeds and red rumps. He's been mucking around hybridising them for years to try to get the paradise colours. He's actually quite close I believe but I don't really know exactly what they should look like so I'm not much of a judge. I don't know if I agree with what he's doing at all (but that's my f'n problem according to him!) In any case some argue that the original Paradise Parrot was never more than a hybrid in the first place.

SamDavis wrote:In any case some argue that the original Paradise Parrot was never more than a hybrid in the first place.

Thx

I think that hybrid theory is unlikely

But arguing over a question that you can never get 'correct weight' on is unproductive

Just as trying to produce a Paradise Parrot would be

But, if that's what floats your boat . . .

Parrot Society forum page dated 2008 stated that someone camping over Christmas of 2008 was sure they saw the Paradise parrot, States they had a clear view mentioned the distinct call and all the colours they saw...even went as far as giving location coordinates.

Another mentioned seeing this parrot feeding on their property only 2 metres from them for 15 minutes.

So it might not be just another drop bear.

And so what happens to all the hybrids that do not look like the Paradise Parrot which as far as I know is a poor taxidermed specimen which often do not look like the real thing anyways ?

Sounds like there could be quite a number of "pretty" parrotts out there. And quite a bit of wasted (not being used to produce their own natural fertile young) genetic material.
LML