lyrebird
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Bird Keeping and loving it!
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Post by lyrebird on Aug 31, 2011 21:05:20 GMT 10
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Post by Robyn on Sept 2, 2011 5:53:38 GMT 10
 Not sure if i believe that one or not. Looks like a bird with PBFD than an aged parrot. I once had a Galah that was over 70 years when he passed & he wad in good feather when he passed.
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Post by avinet on Sept 2, 2011 9:39:39 GMT 10
I definitely don't believe it. The bird obviously had PBFD, and that usually appears within the first 10 years of the bird's life, and it lost it's feathers 20 years before it died, so maybe 30 years at best. And if it was 120 years old when it dies, that means it would have been taken as a pet in 1794 - just 6 years after the First Fleet arrived. I don't think too many records were kept of pet birds at that time.
It reminds me of a story a customer told me about a supposedly long-lived cockatoo. He had grown up thinking his grandfather had this cockatoo out on the farm that lived for ever. Only later in life did his parents tell him that every time the bird died or flew away his grandfather would go out intoo the bush and collect another bird and call it the same name - often just Cocky. Most of the stories about these elderly birds handed down through the generations are just this sort of recycling.
cheers,
Mike
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Post by anzac on Sept 2, 2011 10:50:46 GMT 10
We have this problem in the rat world all the time. Most rats' life span is 2-3 years and yet we have so much anecdotal evidence from people saying that their rat from the pet shop lived to 4 or 5 I have kept rats on and off for last 25 years and the longest lived of mine was one week off 3 years. All my other breeder friends with very accurate records have their oldest at just over 3. People's memories just let them down at times and their animals ages just get blurred. |
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Not sure if i believe that one or not. 
