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ARTICLE BY: LES RANCE


PENNANT’S ROSELLA


PLATYCERCUS ELEGANS


ennant’s Rosellas are found in the wild in southern Queensland through New South Wales and


South Australia. My first knowledge of these beautiful Australian parakeets was obtained when in 1967 I purchased a book written by a Dutch aviculturalist Dr H D Groen ‘Australian Parakeets -Their maintenance and breeding in Europe’. The author published the book himself and it was only available by post from his home at £3.75 and I can confidently say that it was the best value for money book that I have ever owned reading it cover to cover many times. The experiences with Pennant’s Rosellas that Dr Groen had with his pairs was not that good but this was possibly because of their reluctance to incubate their eggs, nowadays Pennant’s appear to be quite easy to breed. They


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are certainly steadier than they were in the 1960’s when many of the birds had originated from rather excitable wild caught stock, at this time it was common for youngsters to leave the nest box and fly headlong into the wire at the far end of the


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