thanks starkers & tg... yeah...these ones are Rainbow Lorikeets..... they are more friendly than rosellas....if you're out on the deck...and holding food..will jump on your arms to feed....or sit on your head....
Thanks for the correction there... I'm not overly familiar with bird species/groupings so rosellas and lorikeets look the same to me. As for loikeets being more friendly/tame, I remember being at the Currumbin Bird sanctuary some years ago and having them all over my sister and I as we held trays of honeyed bread soaked in milk or something... don't have any pics of that myself anymore, but I'll see if my sister will scan and email them for me to post.
.cats were bought up with a tame cockatiel.
My ex brought home a cockatiel before doing the runner, and it refused to be in a cage so I built a perch from which it could fly around the house until it was covered with and old tablecloth at night. His name was spike and could say his name, imitate the phone and say a few other words... and his relationship with the old cat who was formerly pet head of the house was strange to say the least. Spike would often fly over and sit on Frog, who would lay there quite content as Spike nibbled gently at his ears and etc. Spike would also fly over at meal times and pinch bits of food off our plates... bits of carrot, mashed spud and peas, etc.
Sadly, both died of old age and I can not have pets where I'm renting, otherwise I'd love to have another cockatiel and let it be free to fly about the house like Spike did.
.their young were particularly fearless.
Yeah, I'll say they're fearless... our friendly maggies and their young come down while I'm mowing the lawn and peck for grubs right where I've just been... but then we've tried to build a trust between them by feeding and talking to them... pretty much giving them free reign around us and not startling them with sudden movements, etc.
