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| Female Eclectus from video. |
I was recently going through things that were on my DVR when I found a show I had taped off a special HD channel called Oasis, it’s called Australia land of parrots. Made by the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) the film is about an hour long and shows in detail the diverse and spectacular lives of parrots in the harshest and most unpredictable environments of Australia. It features dozens of species from Cockatoo’s and Eclectus parrots to Budgies and Rosellas. For those who love parrots 9or birds in general), want to know more about the lives of these birds in their natural habitats, love Australia or are looking to see beautifully coloured birds in the wilderness of Australia then you’ll love it.
It first tells of the bizarre and most extraordinary bird on the planet the Eclectus in its rain forest home and tells of how much we have learned about these previously enigmatic birds in just the past decade |
| Rainbow Lorikeet from film. |
or so. It also shows what Budgies (they call them bud-ger-y-gars) really live when they aren’t kept in a cage. You think us in North America have a problem with crows and seagulls there’re nothing compared to the Cockatoos who have made themselves at home in Australia’s cities. These Cockies as they are termed in the movie pull roof tiles off roofs, chew through electric insulators on hydro poles and flocks of up to 30 000 have been known to attack a farmers crops and fields. One farmer tried to put canvas over their grain stores but the Cockies ripped through the canvas in only a few seconds and helped themselves. Through decade long droughts, wicked Hurricanes and the most severe of forest fires these birds thrive.
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| Palm Cockatoo's also from video. |
The video might not be suitable for all audience since it does have a segment where they show Budgies mating but other than that it is good for all audiences though I must warn you some of the parrots get eaten by other animals.
Currently it is only available in region 4 on DVD (Canada and the USA are Region 1) but it luckily is now available on Blue Ray which isn’t broken up into different regions.
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| Some teaser pictures. |
This is the only website I could find that shows the whole video:
Cool, this kind of gives off the same vibe of something like Planet Earth. I had no idea that cockatoos were such a nuciance in Australia. I kind of always though they were more of a South American thing. Still I think I'd prefer having cookatoos to crow and gulls.
ReplyDeleteIt's crazy how exotic other culture's pests look to us. Some have raccoons, some have lions, and some have parrots:) This seems like a really interesting documentary, thanks for pointing it out to us!
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