Rosellas

I live in the Dandenong mountains, so my dream is to build a treehouse library/study, so I can read amongst the kookaburras ', rosellas and king parrots. ❋ Nalini Singh (2009)

As I am still at little bewitched by my trip to Australia, I loved the image of the kangaroo and the rosellas. ❋ Unknown (2008)

All around me as I walk, the landscape reveals itself like an illuminated page in an ancient manuscript: parchment-coloured grass, subtle grey-greens and silver of trees and bushes, flashes of stained-glass colour of parrots and rosellas, smoky-blue hills in the distance. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The area is thick with native birds: Pink and gray galahs and gaudy rosellas flit among the trees and across the bike path, picking at seeds in the exclusion zone between the bike path and the thick shrubbery that shields the naval base from prying cyclists. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have seen fantail doves and galahs and cockatoos and rosellas and lorikeets. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of our profs saw how my rosellas had migrated into the office today, and suggested we solve our part-time teaching budget crisis by teaching them to talk and employing them as tutors. ❋ StyleyGeek (2008)

He's pretty good about waiting his turn until the rosellas have finished their meal. ❋ StyleyGeek (2008)

Background: Lately a pigeon has taken to observing the rosellas that feed on my balcony. ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)

The rosellas are clearly no longer content to wait out the front of the house by the balcony for their morning feedings. ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)

Every morning around 8 o'clock I put out the birdseed for the rosellas. ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)

Eight! rosellas escorted me and my bicycle all the way to the end of my street. ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)

Geekman and I just went for a walk in the snuggly autumn sunshine and I'm sure we saw every type of parrot that lives in this city: galahs, cockatoos, crimson rosellas, eastern rosellas, king parrots... ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)

By the way, if you want to train the rosellas, you could try training them to speak like the African Grey parrot who was in the NYT: ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)

The crimson rosellas that visited my office window sill at university have come back every day since, and today I had this lovely little visitor an eastern rosella as well. ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)

My zombie* parrot army now consists of at least two pairs of cockatoos (Flappy and Flappy, and the other Flappys), plus one loner (Mr Psycho McFlappy), one galah, one king parrot, eight crimson rosellas, one eastern rosella, and some civilians non-parrots (currawongs, magpie-larks, wood pigeons). ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)

It does sadden me a little to know that the rosellas are scared of pigeons. ❋ StyleyGeek (2007)