article_snippet: Photographs of rainbow lorikeets who usually feed on seeds eating meat has puzzled bird experts.
article_snippet: A series of pictures snapped at a Elimbah home - north of Brisbane - owned by a man only known as Bill shows the Australian icons feasting on mince, the ABC reported.
article_snippet: This photo of lorikeets eating mince meat was snapped in Elimbah - north of Brisbane in Queensland . '
article_snippet: I've not ever heard of lorikeets, who are seed eating birds, eat meats,' Griffith University's Darryl Jones told Daily Mail Australia. '
article_snippet: What on earth are lorikeets eating meats for? '
article_snippet: Magpies, butcher birds and kookaburras are meat eating birds and people put out chopped up sausage and ham for Magpies.'
article_snippet: Lorikeets are normally birds that favour a diet of seeds.
article_snippet: Wildlife carer Fran Sanders - who has been taking in animals for 25 years in Brisbane - told the ABC she had also never seen this kind of behaviour from lorikeets. '
article_snippet: I've never heard any of them [people she had helped] talk about lorikeets coming down and eating mince.'
highlights_snippet: Pictures show rainbow lorikeets eating meat near Brisbane, Queensland .
  
highlights_snippet: Lorikeets are normally seed-eating birds and this has surprised experts .
  