Galahs

Familiar in their feathers of pink and grey

Parrots i see often though not every day

In small flock to flocks of one hundred sometimes near to two

Galahs known to some as pink and grey cockatoo

Quite pretty to look at with ways of their own

All over Australia they are widely known

High in a cavity in an old tree

The female lay white eggs of four sometimes three

Compared to most others cockatoos they have a pleasant sort of a song

Once seen and once heard you never again get them wrong

Sometimes see them eating grain spilt from trucks on the grass by roadway

Yet so much to be known about them in truth one can say

They eat leaf buds, roots, nuts, insects, seed and grain

And once seen and once heaard you will know them again.