Found this on YouTube when looking at budgie vids :rofl:

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lpud8NeilCw

 

Very cute except for a couple of bits where budgies get eaten by lizards and birds of prey

That's Great... I would like to see what their source is to say that babies are ready to breed in 60 days after fledging, but all in all a good doco.

Thanks for the link, it is good.

great! i loved watching them flying in their flocks... so many budgies! It looked like a swarm of bugs!

 

Cloud of squawking fluffy things...it's all good!

That was an excellent link.

 

So how many of you spotted the mistake?

Edited January 14, 200916 yr by RIPbudgies

Mistake???

my 6 week old boy, lucky, enjoyed the video.

snowy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mistake???

great... now I'm going to have to go look at it again...

I didn't even watch this link because I can tell from your comments that it comes from Australia Land of Parrots. I hate the bit where the poor baby gets eaten

 

And I only watched that on the weekend!

 

 

I spotted that it was a different mum and babies inside the hollow than when they showed them on the outside -- mum was opaline! And the babies weren't normals either.

I wonder if they have many spangles or pied in the wild. I understand that light greens thrive but does it matter what mutation they are carrying... hmmm. I think someone needs to volunteer to do some field work and study this...

Pieds would occur but they would get eaten very quickly. We have/had (haven't seen it in a while) a pied black bird at our uni campus.

One of the wild ducks also had a yellow duckling, which got eaten very quickly too.

 

Opalines don't stand out as much, but in the doco it said that the yellow and black on their backs help them to camouflage in the grass, so an opaline one would make them stand out a bit more and thus get eaten first, depends.

 

Spangle is a very recent mutation and is very unlikely to occur in the wild. It would make the bird brighter in contrast to others (on its wings) and thus easier to spot in trees and grass.

so what was the mistake RIP?

krosp found it. The birds that were shown breeding in the wild were replaced with captive birds when showing the goings on inside the nest hollow. It showed an Opaline hen feeding chicks. There were opalines and a Pied in the nest.

 

Yellows have been spotted from time to time in wild flocks.

 

Hehe the funny thing is that I actually spotted it on the weekend when I watched the DVD of the whole documentary (someone gave it to me as a birthday present)... and I was just going to come on here and ask anyone if they'd noticed it, but I forgot! Then a few days later here it is! Quite a coincidence.

Wow, don't the flying flocks look amazing, like some ethereal alien being!

Thanks for pointing that out RIP I wasn't really paying attention to the mum but I thought, how would they put a camera inside the nest and still get birds to go in it? Also, I was under the impression that you don't get many different mutations in wild budgies..

They can get cameras into these places by using one similar to the ones used by doctors for inserting into small places. They are very small, highly mobile and found at the end of a long tube with cabling provide control to direction, light etc. If you have ever seen some of David Attenborough's docos you would have seen it in use.

 

I have a video which was taken by a couple of fanciers here in WA on one of their trips up north. Quality of the film is not the best. I was going to check that I still had the video and see if I can get it moved over to DVD or such such media so others can see it.

I love the flocks flying, too! I've seen this before on tv, i think it also had a bit where one little budgie drowned . I could never be a wildlife photographer- i'd want to save the ones in trouble!! I'd be chasing that big mean lizard going "shoo! Leave that poor baby alone!!"