The Great Escape

The Eastern Long-billed Corella is now well established around Perth and on the southerly Swan Coastal Plain to Busselton.
It is characterised by having a very long upper bill and its whole face is bright orange-red and it has a bright red neck giving it a cut throat appearance.
This introduced species (derived from aviary escapees around Perth) is a major threat to our endemic corellas and black cockatoos.
The Eastern Long-billed Corella poses an environmental threat to our endemic black cockatoos by out-competing for nest sites, their ability to remove eggs from the nest hollow and to kill and maim advanced nestlings.
There is now urgent management needed in the Perth region and on the Swan Coastal Plain to control this introduced pest species.

At the moment there are more than 50 of these birds in the park opposite where we live, Ruby our two year old granddaughter spent her time chasing them while they were trying to nibble in the grass this afternoon, this one flew into the tree perhaps wondering why his ancestors bothered to escape all those years ago..