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Bird and Flying-Fox Bat Damage to Orchard Fruit: A Guide - Damage by Lorikeets and Rosellas

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Look for horseshoe-shaped marks made by the lower part of the beak
    Apple damaged by Musk Lorikeet
    Photo: Ian Temby
      Photo: Apple damaged by Musk Lorikeet
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      Look for triangular marks made by the upper part of the beak

      Nashi with typical triangular beak marks made by Musk Lorikeet
      Photo: Ian Temby
        Photo: Nashi with typical triangular beak marks mad by Musk Lorikeet
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        Lorikeets often damage many fruits on a tree
        Photos: Ian Temby







        Below left: Musk Lorikeet
        Below right: Rainbow Lorikeet
        Photo: Lorikeets often damage many fruits on a tree
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        Photo: Musk Lorikeet
        Photo: Rainbow Lorikeet

        Sulphur-crested Cockatoos, Galahs and Long-billed Corellas may also attack some fruit crops,
        often going for the seeds or kernels in pome and stone fruits.

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        Peach damaged by Eastern Rosellas, showing typical lower beak marks
          Photo: Ian Temby
          Photo: Peach damaged by Eastern Rosellas
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          Plum fragments on the ground after a rosella feeding on fruit. Note size of fragments. Similar or smaller fragments are also common beneath lorikeet feeding sites.

          Photo: Ian Temby
          Photo: Plum fragments on ground after rosella fed on fruit


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