That parrot wouldn't move if you put 4,000MHz through it!
I worked for Telstra (nee Telcom Oz) in the early 80s and it was well known then, that native birds would chew on damn near anything.
Anything includes the weather caps at the pointy end of microwave wave guides, as found pointing at dishes on microwave trunk bearers. Live or not, they'd happily turn the mica(?) caps to dust. Then the inside of the wave guide would corrode or fill up with dust or bugs or whatever and down goes your bearer.
This is why you don't see naked dishes up telco poles in Oz. Even nbn™ know it. The dishes on their fixed-wireless towers have protective shrouding and as stated above, all the "live" cable runs are armoured... Yes Prime (former Communications) Minister.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
