I visited the walk in aviary in Canberra. My normal camera was flat so only had a mobile phone – great for close up shots but awful for distant birds.

I expected to see Australian birds, but these were an eclectic mix of Australian and overseas birds.

(Humour warning). All the birds there had names starting with the letter P: parrot, pigeon, partridge, pheasant, and pfinch.

Any ID help would be appreciated.

Pigeon
We have White Dove (and two unidentified birds), Diamond Dove, Peaceful Dove, White-headed Pigeon (and cockatoo) and Wonga Pigeon

Partridge from central Asia (and chook)

Chinese Golden Pheasant

Parrots include but are not limited to:
Rainbow Lorikeet, Musk Lorikeet Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
Sulfur-crested Cockatoo, Cockatiel, Budgie
Indian Ringneck (and unidentified parrot)

For finches, I haven’t a clue. Java sparrow is the only one I recognise.

Unidentified finches.

Unidentified parrots.

If you’ve got this far, here’s a bonus picture of Rusty from Tarcutta

Bluddy! Indian bluddy ringnecks.

Sweet

During an ancient collision, the protoplanet named Theia slammed into Earth, leading to the creation of the Moon. But it left some of its remains inside Earth.

POSTED November 3, 2023 BY EVAN GOUGH

Earth is Hiding Another Planet Deep Inside
Earth’s early history is marked by massive collisions with other objects, including planetesimals. One of the defining events in our planet’s history, the formation of the Moon, likely resulted from one of these catastrophic collisions when a Mars-sized protoplanet crashed into Earth. That’s the Giant Impact Hypothesis, and it explains how the collision produced a torus of debris rotating around the Earth that eventually coalesced into our only natural satellite.

New research strengthens the idea that Theia left some of its remains inside Earth.

Read more:

https://www.universetoday.com/164019/earth-is-hiding-another-planet-deep-inside/

Witty Rejoinder said:

During an ancient collision, the protoplanet named Theia slammed into Earth, leading to the creation of the Moon. But it left some of its remains inside Earth.

POSTED November 3, 2023 BY EVAN GOUGH

Earth is Hiding Another Planet Deep Inside
Earth’s early history is marked by massive collisions with other objects, including planetesimals. One of the defining events in our planet’s history, the formation of the Moon, likely resulted from one of these catastrophic collisions when a Mars-sized protoplanet crashed into Earth. That’s the Giant Impact Hypothesis, and it explains how the collision produced a torus of debris rotating around the Earth that eventually coalesced into our only natural satellite.

New research strengthens the idea that Theia left some of its remains inside Earth.

Read more:

https://www.universetoday.com/164019/earth-is-hiding-another-planet-deep-inside/

Would have made a mess of the walk-in aviaries of those days.

Sorry. Fred Wong.

Most of those birds seem to have enough space to wander around in.

I once owned a pair of diamond doves in a cage (not my doing, they were for sale at a deceased estate auction and I took pity on them ‘cos no-one else wanted them).

Must have been a miserable sort of life for them though.