Galahs are highly socialised and live in large groups. I certainly want to believe they take pleasure in flight, and I love seeing them fly above the Brisbane River where I live but I am drawn to observe they are also probably subject to social pressure like flocking behaviour, peer and dominance establishment, and threat of exclusion. Reduction in stress hormones would be normal in an animal conforming within it's g…
Many times I've seen crows as well as smsller birds zoom along a field, getting blown straight up in the air by the updraft at the bank with the road going through it, only to fly back down and do it again.
Plenty of fun to be had.