Thread: Meat eating Crimson Rosellas

I had a rosella as a pet for a while. It used to like curry chicken and beer.

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Feed the maggies some mince meat today and noticed a couple of Crimson Rosellas grab the meat and started gorging themselves. Always thought they we seed eaters and similar parrots only ate pollen and seeds, but doing a google revealed scientist found out recently they also eat meat. T
The earth is not flat after all

We recently noticed the same thing when feeding our maggies, kookies and butchies. Perhaps the Rosellas have read the scientist's report

Last camping trip I cooked steak sangers, missus didn’t finish hers. Went over to mates camp and when I went back for a beer, a roo had helped himself to the steak, just sitting there casually holding onto it and eating away.

Originally Posted by Rick1970

Last camping trip I cooked steak sangers, missus didn’t finish hers. Went over to mates camp and when I went back for a beer, a roo had helped himself to the steak, just sitting there casually holding onto it and eating away.

I had a roo steal my ham sanga out of my hand at Diamond Head. It happily ate the ham.

On another note there are quite a few parrots that eat insects as well as seeds and it seems that they can adapt to eating meat fairly easily the Kea being one of the best examples.

Animals get used to what ever food is on offer...the easier it is to obtain the quicker they adapt.....

I personally don’t feed native or wild animals......although the majority of us seem to get a kick out of it which I’ve had to accept.

Just got back from Wilsons Prom and had a few land on me while sitting around the campsite. Lucky I got out alive by the sound of it!

We camped at Lake St Clair in Tas once and had Wallabies join us at the camp fire and eat potatoes peel offerings, the camp sites there had ready made fire places with a plate of steel as a back plate, we were cooking and eating by the campfire when a cheeky Currawong landed on the hot back plate, I think he must of felt his feet getting braised as he took off in a hurry. Probably the same culprit that stole 3/4 of a loaf of bread out of the rear of my vehicle. I can still see that Sunnycrust bag disappear into the blue yonder above.
Then at Mt Field national park camping there one night i had a big Brush tail crawl up between my legs and tried to steal food from my plate, I was a smoker at the time and had a lit cigarette. I grabbed him with both hands but my cigarette lit his fur and he ran off into a tree with glow coming off his coat. I did go out quickly though so he was ok.

Originally Posted by weeds

Animals get used to what ever food is on offer...the easier it is to obtain the quicker they adapt.....

I personally don’t feed native or wild animals......although the majority of us seem to get a kick out of it which I’ve had to accept.

we encourage the native Maggies as they are territorial and fend off the imported pest, likes sparrows and indian mynas. since we have them the pest species
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