Lorikeet’s lucky recovery

Key points

• A rainbow lorikeet that could not fly was seen huddled in an Ocean Grove garden. The garden owner, Marianne, kept her whippet inside while the bird rested.
• Its parents visited and fed it, then encouraged it to fly. The juvenile lorikeet flapped its wings and flew away on a Sunday afternoon.
• Elsewhere, four stilt sandpipers were reported in South Australia and two sanderlings were seen at Blue Rocks.