Rainbow lorikeets are fiesty fighters in the Canberra Walk-in Aviary

By John Thistleton
Updated April 23 2018 - 8:10pm, first published August 18 2014 - 4:55pm

Canberra ornithologists say Australian rainbow lorikeets are so rare around these parts that if you ever see one in the wild, it is probably an escapee.

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