Besides Australia you will find the lories inhabiting Indonesia, New Guinea and the Pacific. The length of an adult Rainbow Lorikeet is about fifteen inches long and they weigh about five ounces. The Rainbow Lorikeet have brightly colored red, green, blue, yellow, and orange plumage. Most of the bird's body is green with orange feathers on its chest. As the juicy plants and leaves of summer progressively turn to the orange and russets of autumn, the honking of The Great Canadian Geese escorts in a yearly ceremony at Horicon Marsh, located in East Central Wisconsin.
Some people mistakenly call the Dunnock the hedge sparrow.
The Dunnock is not a sparrow though they are similar in appearance. Dunnocks are not weavers like the sparrows. The top body part of the Chaffinch is olive brown and its breast and belly are ivory white. The Chaffinch's legs are short and their conical beak is black or a very dark color. Many people in the United Kingdom have the pleasure of watching these birds in the spring time in their back yards.