Oddities in Nature
By Steve Helson
I spotted a Corella in the wild that stayed with Galahs, not other Corellas and vocalised as a Galah! It mated with a Galah and had three young birds from a Galah and instead of pink on the chest, it was a deep Orange Red. The theory is that Correllas laid eggs and for some reason, the Galahs took over incubating and reared them like a Galah.
Turkourine paired up, two hens to one cockbird. Each had a clutch of young and both hens fed their young and each other's young. Then they went down with another clutch each continuing to do the same feeding each other's young. Then young from the first two clutches were feeding their younger siblings and the young from the other pairs or young.!
A pair of Star Finches in my aviary nested and hatched five young. The male died when the young were two weeks old, so the hen reared the young until they were independent.
Turkourine paired up, two hens to one cockbird. Each had a clutch of young and both hens fed their young and each other's young. Then they went down with another clutch each continuing to do the same feeding each other's young. Then young from the first two clutches were feeding their younger siblings and the young from the other pairs or young.!
A pair of Star Finches in my aviary nested and hatched five young. The male died when the young were two weeks old, so the hen reared the young until they were independent.