I spotted 8 Glossies in a grove of Allocasurinas, on my neighbours property, they had spotted the birds there a couple of weeks ago and I have also seen them flying from that direction in the past. There were 3 distinctive groups. 2 groups were female, male and Juvenille the other group was male and female. Tried to get photos of both sides of females. One group were low in a feed tree eating, the other 2 groups were sitting close to each other higher up in a gum tree. I have sent the rest of the photos to Glossies in the Mist
John Martin undertook a study a couple of years ago on Sulphur Crested Cockatoo foot preference. This study found the majority were left handed. l believe it is similar with a lot of parrot/ cockatoo species.
Yes apparently all parrot (and cockatoo) species are mainly left footed. This website poses the theory (from research) that most parrot species have a correlation between foot preference and eye preference (involving the way they eat). (http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9382000/9382181.stm).
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