Stress bars! Eex!

[Wolf]

This may help:

http://birds.about.com/od/birdhealth/f/stressbars.htm

[Chantilly]

Just thought I would share this because I am so amazed
My sister had a school camp recently which all my family but Dad came on the long painfuk trip to take her, anyway while she did the camp we did allot of bushwalking and on the second day we did wild bird feeding with soaked bread and what smelt like maple syrup. It was amazing! there was 1k+ lorikeets there, honestly! no kidding there were huge huge amounts of them. To my suprise we actually got to see yellow-scalies, and this was probably the best part of the trip for me because I had never seen them in the wild. While watching all these birds (only 6 yellow scalies came down for feed though, they were clearly outnumbered by the billions (< over exadgeration) of rainbows there. Also I got to see how much less dominant they were to the rainbows and that they were in general less social. Now we had gone all the way down the coast of QLD for this, and yellow scalies are only meant to be at the top area of QLD, so it seems they are growing in numbers. I sadly did not see any Shreks in the mixed species flocks
Seeing this leads me to wonder if Shrek would be fertile (FIY no, I do not want to ever let her become a breeder, just curious becuase:) ... she is a hybrid not a mutation because she is from two separate species, but these two species are so similar that one could almost be a mutation of the other.

I might try to upload a pic of the humungus flocks we got to feed, it was really cool.

[Wolf]

I would say that Shrek is fertile. It depends on the type of hybrid produced, some are fertile and others are, for the sake of simplicity, not fertile.

[Pajarita]

Shrek is fertile, the species are just geographically designated and they even interbreed in the wild.

[Chantilly]

Thankyou Wolf and Paj!!

[Chantilly]

Shrek is fertile, the species are just geographically designated and they even interbreed in the wild.

I got to meet another Shrek today @ thebirdpark... It was pretty cute but it wanted me to say goodbye to my precious fingers
It was noticably a baby still, its beak was a purpley/black-red instead of a vibrant red, I think that this is the main indication of age in lorikeets, their beak colour.