Yesterday I said I wished I could see some gorellas because I hadn't seen any for 3 years (when I joined BIBY) and today a family came in: galah, corella and their 3 babies. As always the babies are all boys (black eyes). If they come back again I'll see if the mother is the galah as it is probably the same pair we have been seeing for many years. I hope to get a better photo opp too, not at 7:00 pm just before rain, and they were scared away by the neighbour whipper snippering the fence
That's a really cool find and nice shots too. I haven't seen a Gorella before!
Cheers, Owen.
Great to see them back again Kim.... good shots too even with the white sky. Well done and I hope you get some more photo ops soon with them
Sunshine Coast Queensland
These are beautiful pictures. I have never even heard of a Gorella, what are they? Also as birdie says: well done in the conditions the pictures were taken!
From the stunning Yarra Vally Mountains!
I think by Gorelle Birdgirl means a cross bewtween a Galah and a Corella :p I havn't heard of(or seen)these birds before though
Nice one , I never heard of them either, or is it a spelling mistake? What ever they are, great photos! They do look different to a Corella.M-L
M-L
Seriously now, if the babies are all boys, does that mean they can breed, or are they sterile? M-L
M-L
Thanks everyone.
Gorella is our word for them, galah x corella. It makes sense: tigers x lions are tions and ligers.
If it's the same parents as we've seen in the past, the mother is a galah and the father is a little corella.
I've photographed them in the past and all the babies have brown eyes.
Adult male galahs have brown eyes and females have red eyes. I had assumed the babies were males, but I just pulled out the Reader's Digest complete book of Australian birds and it says immature galahs have brown eyes.
I'd always wondered why all the baby galahs hatched in our bird box were males. Now I know they may not have been. Donald and Huey may have been girls!!!! omg!!!!
Awesome, thanks for sharing the pics. I didn't know they inter-bred in the wild, but there you go! :)
Cheers,
Scott.
ps Araminta, if two different species interbreed, the babies should be sterile (a species interbreeeds and produces fertile young). But I don't know how rare these are and if anyone will ever study them.
Have a look in surveys adn interesting sightings. Someone pulled up an old post
Corella/Galah hybrid?
showing a galah x corella and it is quite different to my grey ones - it is pale pink on the front with big white splotches on the grey wings and the blue corella eye ring