Eastern Rosella - Red mutation


Grenadiers, Peale’s Parrotfinches, Grey Headed Olivebacks and my Australian Parakeets. Although I kept all my seedeaters in 12ft long planted flights, with only 2 pairs per flight, and a good quantity of livefood, I never reared a single bird successfully, though chicks were commonplace.


During this time my father, Martin Mogg, filmed and produced a video on keeping and breeding Australian Finches and then a second video on Australian Parakeets. I was lucky enough to accompany him, as we visited a number of parakeet breeders, primarily in the north of England. It was here that I saw my first Hooded, Brown’s, Tasmanians, Cloncurries, Yellow Vented Bluebonnets and Blue Winged Grass Parakeets, the


34 BIRD SCENE


Hooded in particular breeding very successfully. Although I had previously seen some rather poor Pileated, imported from Belgium, during one of these filming visits I was lucky enough to see two fantastic pairs of Pileated at one breeder’s aviaries, both with large broods of chicks just out of the nest. What enthused me most, was that here was a group of birds, Australian Parakeets, that had not received any extensive fresh blood for 20 years, but was still breeding quality young. Predominantly of what I considered the true wild type, without being handreared or fostered. My father was fortunate enough to have two visits to Australia during this time, both of three months in duration. He managed to visit upwards


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