Long Billed Corellas

 Long billed corellas white parrots of the cockatoo family

With long thin hooked upper bill overlapping their  lower bill one often them see

Digging for roots and seeds in flocks on the ground

Within their range in large numbers they abound

With some red around face as well as on breast

In areas of grain crops and fruit trees they can become a pest

As well they can damage parks and sport fields in many a town

The reason the government allow culling to keep their numbers down

Old growth trees with cavities to lay their one to four white eggs in the female corellas need

And due to a shortage of these some of them cannot breed

It is said twenty years is their life's expectancy

In their range everyday they are birds one does see

With their long thin hooked bills digging for bulbs and seeds on the ground

And in large noisy flocks they always abound.