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Skies near Boulia teeming with budgies
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Peter Morley
October 26, 2009 11:00pm
SKIES around the far west Queensland town of Boulia are teeming with budgerigars.
This year's floods along river systems such as the Diamantina and Georgina sparked prolific breeding by the budgies which have been feasting on an abundance of grass seeds.
"I have been here since 1983 and never seen anything like it," Boulia grazier Ann Britton said. "The skies are thick with budgies – how they do not collide with each other is a miracle in itself.
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"My father, who has travelled extensively in the Outback, was with me when we saw a massive flock and said he would not have believed the size if he had not seen it with his own eyes."
Desert Channels Queensland spokesman Steve Wilson said the green budgerigars were "virtually everywhere" in "great big clouds that look like a bee swarm".
The birds "just seemed to turn up" after a rain event and then began to breed.
"I was in Boulia where I saw 17 pairs nesting in a coolibah tree," he said. "They like hollow logs but the need to breed is dominant and one budgie was sitting on four eggs on the ground."
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