Whats you talkin bout Willis? Seriously tho, he hasnt outright said he WONT get another parrot? Wonder which one it will be. MmmmOi you lot!!! What is this???? Gerard's Zoo????In which natural history text does it claim that Ekkies, Lories and Alex's are Psephotus Grass Parrots.
There is a reasonably good population of approximately 3000 Golden Shouldered parrots in captivity. At this stage mine will be kept as pets, but I may breed them if there are any significant changes to amount of GSPs in captivity. The first aim after getting them settled after the first couple of weeks will be to get them onto a better diet.Are you planning on breeding them? Or keeping them as pets?
They are beautiful
Ahhhh, this I think would prove to be difficult due to their basic aggressive nature and unusual nesting habits. Unlike many of our parrots Golden Shouldered Parrots are not flock birds, which means that unlike a cocky that can learn the ways of the wild by joining a flock, GSPs would have to learn on their own. One of their biggest predators in the wild is the Grey Butcherbird and I have to very closely supervise my birds when I put them outside, because they are not afraid to attack a bird through the cage bars. Captive birds wouldn't have the same awareness of predators. While it's not impossible the odds would be stacked against it.
Yeah...inaction plans...For those who want more info here you can find more on them including the recovery of the species
Golden-shouldered parrot (Department of Environment and Heritage Protection)
Interesting to note that we are definitely an impact by not understanding that the bush in Australia NEEDS fire to regenerate and keep the habitat well for it's wildlife.
Lack of proper burning in the wetlands and overgrazing has lead to their decline.
I'm tipping if you went and asked State Treasury to show you the expenditure linked to this particular supposed "action plan" you'd waiting for the results of a ten year search while they just tried to figure out what the hell you were waffling about. 
These are the type of policies that designed to satisfy the likes of environmentalists, naturalists and conservationists without actually doing anything. Governments are often boffins of BS and not much else unfortunately. 
Beautiful! CONGRATS!
To @JAM, @CeddysMum, @Vegemite, @CheekyBeaks and @InTheAir, it's so awesome to see the Aussie tradition of taking the piss out of each other is still alive and well. @Vegemite, there's not a snowflake's chance of hell of catching up to you , but I have caught up to @JAM and @CeddysMum was wise to stop at one. 
Not that I'm aware of Claire, but the lack of humidity in Victoria compared to Queensland would make it difficult to grow those particular grubs here. I don't know of anyone using maggots here either. That's not to say it can't be done though. 
Can't wait to see the male in full "colors" .. would be interesting to see a progression as he matures in the changes.
@ArtBird!!! It's wonderful to see you around the traps Celia. We've all missed you and I'm sure @vmashley03, @RJ Noodle, @GuineaPigster and many others have as well.
It's not unusual for aviculturists to feed many of our smaller parrots mealworms for some extra protein given that virtually all grass parrots are on a seed-based diet.
I'm horrible with names, but just want to say "congrats"!!
They are stunning.
