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Attracting wild rosellas


LisaC

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Hi there. Spotted 3 rosellas in our trees this morning - they flew away after being there some time. It's the first time I've seen them around our place.

Any ideas on food we could leave for them to attract them back / encourage them to stay a while?

Thanks so much

Lisa

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:lol:

I ahve tried many things to catch them in my old backyard in birkenhead in auckland.

closest i came was when i put my tame lorikeet in the garden and made him stay under a laundry basket rigged with a stick on a string and his favourite ball under the basket.

1 rosella came to see what he was and i almost got him... almost... :lol:

it was a priceless sight.

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watch out if you do catch one, a guy I once new kept pigeons and a rosella knocked itself out on the window so he put it in a wire mesh cadge, when it woke up it ripped a hole in the mesh and escaped in about a minute.

And once Sirans mums cat caught one on the front lawn and it gave him a very graphic lesson on why that wasn't polite and not to do it again, poor cat never went near birds again.

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watch out if you do catch one, a guy I once new kept pigeons and a rosella knocked itself out on the window so he put it in a wire mesh cadge, when it woke up it ripped a hole in the mesh and escaped in about a minute.

really, a mate used to catch wild ones & put them in his huge avery. he had a cage that had a compartment at the bottom where you put a rosella & it would attract another which would land on a perch on the top compartment & it would fall in & the door would shut over it. i don't recall them getting.

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Have you tried just whistling back? it takes a while to mimic but it sures gets them interested if you can do it right.

I dunno how hard it would be...My rosella does her "dooot dooot dooot" call when the microwave beeps or someone whistles on the tv...So they can't be too demanding.:)

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hook beaks need grains that they can peal so a parrot mix will work

They will in general stay in the same area so if food is available they will stay in the same km or so

They do compete with our native birds and those that are already here so be aware of that.

From memory, the North Shore had quite a problem with them over taking some where so they trapped them and disposed of them.

Commercially, they are caught with a spring net that is on the ground. When the group is close enough, the net is sprung and traps them underneath. As mentioned earlier, they have very strong beaks so leather gloves are normally used

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hook beaks need grains that they can peal so a parrot mix will work

They will in general stay in the same area so if food is available they will stay in the same km or so

They do compete with our native birds and those that are already here so be aware of that.

From memory, the North Shore had quite a problem with them over taking some where so they trapped them and disposed of them.

Commercially, they are caught with a spring net that is on the ground. When the group is close enough, the net is sprung and traps them underneath. As mentioned earlier, they have very strong beaks so leather gloves are normally used

Nah, Rosellas don't have that strong of beaks. They'll just take off chunks of skin, nothing to worry about like the bigger parrots.

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Nah, Rosellas don't have that strong of beaks. They'll just take off chunks of skin, nothing to worry about like the bigger parrots.

Personal experiance has me with totally different thoughts

The ones I kept, fed amond nuts to and they would open them

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me too,would you like to come and hold mine when I worm them next,Ira?

Why would I need to hold yours to prove that their weak little beaks only take off chunks of skin instead of fingers like bigger parrots?

I have one of each. The rosella actually barely even breaks the skin, the grey has actually eaten human flesh.

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