Nee het zit nog complexer in elkaar.
Geen 3-3
Maar 5 poppen en 6 mannen en daarbij de rosekaketoe.
World first, galah breeds with cockatiel
This hybrid parrot, known as a Galatiel, is the first ever cross between a galah and a cockatiel.
It was bred accidentally by Nikki Wann, who lives at Brewarrina in outback Australia.
She had five female cockatiels, six male cockatiels and a 12-year-old male galah in an aviary together.
When she walked past the cage one day she noticed the unusual baby on a perch, took it inside and made it a pet.
The bird is slightly larger than a cockatiel.
But the latest hybrid that I’ve come across is really incredible, with the environment and the circumstances under which it was bred truly amazing.
Nikki, who lives in New South Wales, has bred a galah-cockatiel cross, which as far as I can ascertain is a world first.
She had a 12-year-old male galah in an aviary with five female cockatiels and six male cockatiels.
Three pairs of cockatiels were breeding happily and Nikki got the shock of her life when she walked past the cage one day and saw a decidedly different-looking bird sitting on a perch.
“It was a young bird and obviously a cross between the galah and a light yellow coloured six-year-old cockatiel, with the parent birds definitely bonded and together all the time,” she said.
“The young bird is around 25 per cent larger than a cockatiel, with a galah’s body shape that’s grey all over.
“He has an orange galah-style crest, dusty orange chest, deep orange cheek patches, with wings more like a cockatiel in colour but the shape of a galah’s wings.”
Joseph Forshaw, the world renowned parrot expert and author of the classic Australian Parrots book, said he had never heard of a galah crossing with a cockatiel anywhere in the world.
“I have never heard of a cockatiel crossing with anything, although I have heard of people trying to cross them with other parrots,” Mr Forshaw said.
He said recent DNA tests had indicated that cockatiels are related to Australia’s black cockatoos.
“I guess the fact that the cockatiel has bred with a member of the cockatoo family proves conclusively that it is a part of that family,” he said.
Avian vet Tim Oldfield was sceptical when told of the mutation, but changed his tune when shown the photo.
“I have to admit it looks exactly like a cockatiel galah cross, quite amazing,” he said.
The woman who bred the bird took it inside to hand-feed it, intending to make it a pet.
“He’s very quiet and friendly and I’ve been offered $15,000 for him, but people have told me he’s worth a lot more because he’s the only one in the world,” she said.
The parent birds, which were in a half-enclosed aviary 2.5m x 1.5m x 1.8m high, were fed parrot mix and could also get into vegetable scraps and guinea pig food mixture that was intended for a few guinea pigs that live on the floor of the aviary.
Nikki described the four 400mm long nest logs in the aviary as “cockatiel size”, with one placed upright on the floor in each corner of the aviary, with the tops of the logs completely exposed.
“Three of the logs were used by the cockatiels and the other box was used by the parents of the hybrid baby,” she said.
“It would have been a tight fit for the galah to get into the log.”
Peter
2005-09-12 - 08:43:10 
