Well Galahs are wild flyers at the best of times, and just love doing fast swoops and dives. They are so caught up in their own excitement they have no regard for what is going on around them. Plus with mown grass on road edges and in median strips there is lovely young grass seeds right on the roads edges. So they congregate around roads anyway.
But they do sit on roads, they are shocking for it. I actually had to completely stop the other day for a group of youngsters that just sat watching my car drive up to them. It was only me beeping at them that moved them off. A truck was coming the other way which wouldn't have been so courteous!
It's nothing for us to see five or more per day brought into the wildlife hospital at this time of year, an half of them would be car accident victims. So sad.
Tragically, and this one is the worst to see, if an adult is injured on a road it's calls bring it's mate and other flock members to try and help it, so more get hit as a result...
We had an adult female brought in recently who had lost her mate and was with him on the road when picked up. She only had minor injuries but she was so sad we didn't think we could pull her through. But we buddied her up with some orphaned wild youngsters we were raising and she started eating again. We eventually released them with her back into her flock. They seemed to cheer her up no end so I hope she is happy again out there somewhere!
And little Corella is coming along in leaps and bounds. She has lots of adjusting to do, one wing, new people etc etc. But she's just amazing me everyday - and still only five days post op!
They will need special homes. Corella could still end up staying with us yet, but the Galah will have to be adopted out very carefully.
