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Eos semilarvata

Photo by Rob Hutchinson
Seram, Indonesia, September 2006

[edit] Identification

24cm

• Dark red body
• Purple-blue cheeks, chin, and ear-coverts
• Purple-blue abdomen and undertail coverts
• Black streaked wings
• Orange bill (pink in juvenile)
• Red-brown tail
• Orange/red eye

[edit] Distribution

South-east Asia: found in the montane forests of Seram (southern Moluccas)

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

[edit] Habitat

Trees 1600-2400m.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes flowers.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Wikipedia
3. Parrots.org
4. AvianWeb

• List of references

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