Price of lutino Galah in US?

[Billy29]

I just saw a picture of one and it was beautiful. Didn't see any breeders in the US. How much would one of these go for?

 

[Featheredsamurai]

I'd take a guess at $3-$5,000. I looked around for US breeders and also didn't find any.

 

[Betrisher]

I've never heard of a lutino galah! Had to google them to see what they look like. Yick! Not my cup of tea at all. I've known some hybrids between a Galah and a Corella. They were pallid versions of the Galah colouring with the Corella's head and crest shape. They also had hardly any voice and 'whispered' when they made sounds. One of these birds lived in our local petshop and its cage was always by the door. It would whisper at you as you came in: 'I'm sorry. We're closed'.

I think it's a shame when people breed weird and wonderful colours of birds (just my own opinion). I like the original colours best!

 

[Billy29]

While I think they are attractive I certainly wouldn't pay that much more than a regular colored one.

 

[Mike17]

I've never heard of a lutino galah! Had to google them to see what they look like. Yick! Not my cup of tea at all. I've known some hybrids between a Galah and a Corella. They were pallid versions of the Galah colouring with the Corella's head and crest shape. They also had hardly any voice and 'whispered' when they made sounds. One of these birds lived in our local petshop and its cage was always by the door. It would whisper at you as you came in: 'I'm sorry. We're closed'.

I think it's a shame when people breed weird and wonderful colours of birds (just my own opinion). I like the original colours best!

Hybrids between the various corella species and galah are quite common here, and not ridiculously expensive (around AUD400 for hand-raised). Given how closely the corellas and galahs live, I'd not be surprised if they hybridise in the wild, too. I personally like them and would dearly love to own one, although our house is becoming more like a zoo every day. I share your dislike of the lutino galah though, not my cup of tea either. Especially if they were thousands of $$$! I've attached a pic from the web of a hybrid- gorgeous, and those I've met have a sweet temperament, too.

 

[Betrisher]

Yes, they are gorgeous! I notice in your pic, the bird has bluish skin around the eye. I haven't seen that before! So pretty! Have you experienced the whispering voice, Mike17? I only ask because I've encountered it twice and both times in Galah/Corella hybrids.

 

[Mike17]

Ha, I forgot you were in Oz, Betrisher! I've heard a few hybrids talking, and none of them were loud There's one that has been in pet shop in Perth for years, missing lower beak, it's very quiet. The blue around the eye comes from the corella in the mix. Our Little Corella has a distinct blue area... I think Americans call them the "bare-eyed cockatoo" or somesuch. In the last year, I've seen my first long-billed corella/galah hybrid, the beak is mid-way in length, quite a pretty bird.

 

[Featheredsamurai]

I don't find lutino galahs unattractive, I just LOVE that pretty lavender grey, and the light gray high lights on the wing

This is Taffy, he's a adorable lutino galah who lives in australia

I would be sad if Rosie was lutino, and didn't have those beautiful gradients of grey.

 

[Betrisher]

Hey Mike17 - wow, fancy a Long-billed Corella/Galah hybrid! I never thought of that. I agree with you that some hybridising must go on in nature because we get lots of Galahs mixed in with the big Corella flocks that live nearby. It's funny... since the big white cockatoo flocks have moved in, the Galahs seem to be moving slowly away. You don't see flocks of them like you used to: just the odd two or four, often with Corellas. Hmmm...

Also, when I started bird-watching about forty or so years ago, you threw a party if you ever saw a lone Long-billed Corella. Now, they're everywhere! Which is good. But I wonder what makes them come and go into an area over the years?

Is it just me, or do you also find it funny to see 'Rose-breasted Cockatoo' used to describe a Galah? Makes me LOL!

 

[Mike17]

Hey Mike17 - wow, fancy a Long-billed Corella/Galah hybrid! I never thought of that. I agree with you that some hybridising must go on in nature because we get lots of Galahs mixed in with the big Corella flocks that live nearby. It's funny... since the big white cockatoo flocks have moved in, the Galahs seem to be moving slowly away. You don't see flocks of them like you used to: just the odd two or four, often with Corellas. Hmmm...

Also, when I started bird-watching about forty or so years ago, you threw a party if you ever saw a lone Long-billed Corella. Now, they're everywhere! Which is good. But I wonder what makes them come and go into an area over the years?

Is it just me, or do you also find it funny to see 'Rose-breasted Cockatoo' used to describe a Galah? Makes me LOL!

Yeah, I think those "descriptive" names are rather boring and silly when the birds have a perfectly nice "native" name (presumably from one of the many Aboriginal languages in the case of the galah). I like "28" for one of the races of the Port Lincoln Parrot, since that's their call! We get them around here although strictly speaking it's the Pilbara something-or-other since 28s are further south. At my last posting in NSW they were Mallee Ringnecks. Over here quarrions are called weero/weiro and I suspect that's an onamatapoeic name like 28.

As for the long-bills, when I was last at Bird World in NW Sydney there were dozens hanging around under the cages and on the grounds... where they were out of their natural range, but attracted by changes in land use (farming, market gardens and horse paddocks) plus of course all the free bird food! They also inhabit golf courses, and as they are diggers (liking roots, bulbs etc) they are rather unpopular with golfers (and greenkeepers). They are a pest in WA, too, and often shot, WA is well outside their natural range, apparently they are naturalised in Tasmania, too (Yay!!). So, like other bird species specifically and many non-bird species generally, they can be advantaged by human land-use changes or disadvantaged either by land clearance (loss of habitat and/or food source), direct predation (yummy to eat) or feral animals/birds.

 

[Sungazer]

I firmly believe each to their own. but common sense has to be thought of and the animals welfare. Their have been too many breeds across all species of animals that have been selectively bred and health issues have been introduced. Not only health issues but the whole personality of the bird in this case could be (most likely be changed). The Galah is such a beautiful naturally occurring bird with a personality that I have yet to be seen matched by any other.

I have an eclectus that I bought because of looks one of the biggest regrets I now have.

 

[Sungazer]

Is it just me, or do you also find it funny to see 'Rose-breasted Cockatoo' used to describe a Galah? Makes me LOL!

I had to look this up I didn't know what everyone was talking about. I have never heard anyone here ever call them that.

How ever since looking at this forum I have seen a lot of other Cockatoos that are not natives of Australia that I never knew existed.

 

[MonicaMc]

What about a blue galah??????

Well... visually, they aren't blue... they're white and grey.


As far as I know there are no mutations of Galah's within the USA. Could be wrong but I don't know of any. Years ago, when I first started looking into galahs, they were around $3,000 to $3,200 per bird. Now? You can get them for $1,000 and up!


If any mutations were available in the USA, they'd probably be $5,000 and up. Possibly even around the $8,000 to $15,000 price range.

 

[Betrisher]

Whew! That's amazing! You can get a Galah over here for around $100 (often less). Mind you, I've seen African Greys for $5000 and Macaws for double that. My daughter is *busting* to have a mini Mishka (he's her hero), and she's doing some serious saving to that end. LOL! She's a girl, though. There are shoes, dresses, handbags...

 

[Mike17]

Whew! That's amazing! You can get a Galah over here for around $100 (often less). Mind you, I've seen African Greys for $5000 and Macaws for double that. My daughter is *busting* to have a mini Mishka (he's her hero), and she's doing some serious saving to that end. LOL! She's a girl, though. There are shoes, dresses, handbags...

The difference between native birds and exotics, of course. Our friend back in NSW paid $4500 for a pair of Hahn's Macaws (total- he actually sourced them from different places) and Greys and BGs are ridiculously priced. As I understand it, we had exotics coming in when the import restrictions were lifted for three years around 1991-94, then they were reimposed. Some "exotics" were here already, of course, and I'd assume Eccies would be in that class. The breeder we got our eccy off suggested much of our stock came from a mixed flock at Taronga Park Zoo, PNG & Solomons. Strangely, greys are banned in WA.

 

[Sungazer]

Yep I paid $50 from a breeder (maybe) for a 10 month old. I have seen them in one Bird shop for consistently $60 but most others are $100. This means they are getting them from the breeders for $50.

I am not sure on the rules but i think you may be able to get a license to even wild catch Galahs.

 

[Mike17]

Yep I paid $50 from a breeder (maybe) for a 10 month old. I have seen them in one Bird shop for consistently $60 but most others are $100. This means they are getting them from the breeders for $50.

I am not sure on the rules but i think you may be able to get a license to even wild catch Galahs.

I've never seen a galah that cheap, Birdworld in Perth sell hand-raised for $250-300, but then they sell weiros for $150! I was taken by a hand-raised budgie when last there but too scared to ask the price! They have them all trimmed and they are on a large play area near the counter, apart from more expensive ones they leave in cages (it's a big, open barn-like shed when they're open for business). Back in NSW a shop in Parkes had hand-raised galah/corella hybrids "coming in" for $400 but I lived 400km away and didn't fancy an 800km trip to return, especially as we were on our way back from a road trip to Tasmania.

 

[Betrisher]

Dad was given Dominic and three siblings for free when farm dogs routed his nest (in a rotten fencepost) and killed his parents. I'm not sure what the law is in NSW about Galahs - I don't *think* you have to have a licence, but I equally don't think it could possibly be legal to steal them from nests either.

There's a park near where I live and, aside from a well-known and beautifully maintained rose garden, it has numerous very old gum-trees in it. There are all sorts of parrots nesting there including SC2s, LB Corellas, Galahs and Pale Headed Rosellas, among others. Most people have absolutely no idea what's going on over their heads because they go to look at the roses. I nearly fainted the day I saw a PHR coming out of a tree-hole! They're not at all common in my area and certainly unheard-of in the city. But there it was! It flew down to the drain, took a long drink and then flew back to the nest-hole where it's mate was waiting in the doorway. Despite my surprised hopping about and gesticulating, not one person with me was the slightest bit interested. Philistines!

As it happens, that very same tree (a hunormous old Blackbutt with a diameter wider than I am tall), has been fenced off by the council. At first, I thought they were going to cut it down, but I've since found out they're stopping people from going near it because it contains so many bird and mammal nests. O yay! A little bit of good sense! Mind you, I'm *busting* to know what kinds of mammals are using the tree, but still have no clue. The area's far too scary to go there at night with a spotlight!

 

[Mike17]

Dad was given Dominic and three siblings for free when farm dogs routed his nest (in a rotten fencepost) and killed his parents. I'm not sure what the law is in NSW about Galahs - I don't *think* you have to have a licence, but I equally don't think it could possibly be legal to steal them from nests either.

There's a park near where I live and, aside from a well-known and beautifully maintained rose garden, it has numerous very old gum-trees in it. There are all sorts of parrots nesting there including SC2s, LB Corellas, Galahs and Pale Headed Rosellas, among others. Most people have absolutely no idea what's going on over their heads because they go to look at the roses. I nearly fainted the day I saw a PHR coming out of a tree-hole! They're not at all common in my area and certainly unheard-of in the city. But there it was! It flew down to the drain, took a long drink and then flew back to the nest-hole where it's mate was waiting in the doorway. Despite my surprised hopping about and gesticulating, not one person with me was the slightest bit interested. Philistines!

As it happens, that very same tree (a hunormous old Blackbutt with a diameter wider than I am tall), has been fenced off by the council. At first, I thought they were going to cut it down, but I've since found out they're stopping people from going near it because it contains so many bird and mammal nests. O yay! A little bit of good sense! Mind you, I'm *busting* to know what kinds of mammals are using the tree, but still have no clue. The area's far too scary to go there at night with a spotlight!

It's not legal anywhere as far as I know, Betrisher, to take parrots (or any native animal) from the wild in Oz. What's a "PHR" I'm too tired to work out the abb. If the park's scary at night take a .44. Magnum along with the spotlight..(just kidding, I know what you mean about cities & night). The mammals might include the possums, sugar-glider, what of koalas? There are plenty up around Medowie, used to see them on the RAAF base.

 

[SpotsandSally]

Dad was given Dominic and three siblings for free when farm dogs routed his nest (in a rotten fencepost) and killed his parents. I'm not sure what the law is in NSW about Galahs - I don't *think* you have to have a licence, but I equally don't think it could possibly be legal to steal them from nests either.

There's a park near where I live and, aside from a well-known and beautifully maintained rose garden, it has numerous very old gum-trees in it. There are all sorts of parrots nesting there including SC2s, LB Corellas, Galahs and Pale Headed Rosellas, among others. Most people have absolutely no idea what's going on over their heads because they go to look at the roses. I nearly fainted the day I saw a PHR coming out of a tree-hole! They're not at all common in my area and certainly unheard-of in the city. But there it was! It flew down to the drain, took a long drink and then flew back to the nest-hole where it's mate was waiting in the doorway. Despite my surprised hopping about and gesticulating, not one person with me was the slightest bit interested. Philistines!

As it happens, that very same tree (a hunormous old Blackbutt with a diameter wider than I am tall), has been fenced off by the council. At first, I thought they were going to cut it down, but I've since found out they're stopping people from going near it because it contains so many bird and mammal nests. O yay! A little bit of good sense! Mind you, I'm *busting* to know what kinds of mammals are using the tree, but still have no clue. The area's far too scary to go there at night with a spotlight!

It's not legal anywhere as far as I know, Betrisher, to take parrots (or any native animal) from the wild in Oz. What's a "PHR" I'm too tired to work out the abb. If the park's scary at night take a .44. Magnum along with the spotlight..(just kidding, I know what you mean about cities & night). The mammals might include the possums, sugar-glider, what of koalas? There are plenty up around Medowie, used to see them on the RAAF base.

Pale headed rosella (I only got that because she mentioned them before xD )

I'd love to see one of those in real life. Heck I'd be amazed to have wild nesting parrots - not matter what they are! When my dad was in somewhere (LOL, he's in the army, I think somewhere around Australia) he said he saw lots of parrots.
I'd be tempted to knab one just for some cuddles! (One of the babies)