Polly wants a natter at park

Whistles, phrases and affectionate personalities are on the cards for this year's baby birds at Bunbury Wildlife Park.

Visitors can look forward to a more interactive experience in coming months after this breeding season's chicks are hand-raised by the park's animal attendants.

Animal attendant Casey Morris said after a poor breeding season last year, the park hoped to have a good season - with a focus on the walk-through aviary's native Western Australian species.

"We've got red-caps, princesses, regents, twenty-eights and western rosellas," Ms Morris said.

"They are the five breeds that we'll be targeting for this year. We are hoping to regenerate numbers and raise quite a few of them as well just so we can get a few more friendly birds back in there and have something for the customers to see and interact with."

Two rainbow lorikeets are the first chicks of the season and will spend two-to-three months with animal attendants before returning to the exotic aviary.

"These guys can talk so hopefully we'll be able to get them to say some pretty cool little phrases and make them a little bit exciting," she said.

Ms Morris said the two chicks were "a little bit earlier than normal", with breeding season generally in spring and chicks hatching at the end of August.