A Bird's Eye View
Wander out Yonder, around WA's Wheatbelt.
The places we visit, the history, the wildlife, the wildflowers,
here you may spot the local Pink and Grey Galah.
Galahs are one of Australia’s favourite birds.
You can see Galahs in almost any part of Australia, mucking around, playing, squawking and having fun.
Galahs are seed-eaters, so are often seen feeding on grass seeds on the ground. They also eat seeds from many Australian shrubs and trees, including Acacias (Wattles) and Casuarinas (She-oak). They are important seed dispersers – many seeds germinate after galahs carry them to another site, and then drop them intact or partially-eaten.
Galahs can travel and roost in flocks of 1000 birds. It is an impressive sight, especially at dawn and sunset – their bright pink breasts glow in the warm light.
Galahs are very fast – they are known to fly at 70km/hr. They are powerful and acrobatic, and think nothing of doing loop-the-loops, and ducking through branches at speed, all in a show of their aerial mastery. To see a huge flock of galahs flying like daredevils, high and low, at great speed, is one of the great sights of Australia.
The word galah is also used in Australia for a silly person, a bit of a clown. This is thought to have come from the silly antics of Galah birds. Though highly intelligent, galahs often play the fool – hanging upside-down on branches, sliding down wires, tumbling and wrestling each other on the ground, doing somersaults and playing with toys.
Looking around this oval here, once a popular place in Popanyining's history, we have been watching a flock of pink and grey galahs roosting in the tree tops as the sun goes down.
You may see some Pink and Grey Cockatoos from a Birds Eye View as you search for this geocache.
A TOTT is required to retrieve this geocache, please return it to the same gz as you found it.