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Psittinus cyanurus

[edit] Identification

18cm. Green, bright red shoulder patches, yellowish margins on wing coverts.

Male - black mantle, red upper mandible, greyish-blue head and rump, brighter blue to forehead and crown, grey-olive breast and abdomen, green-yellow thighs and under tail-coverts, blue-black back, deep blue lower back and upper tail-coverts, red sides of body and wing-coverts, dark green wings and greater wing-coverts, upperside of tail greenish-yellow and underside is yellow, red upper mandible, brown-black lower mandible, pale yellow iris and grey feet.

Female - similar to male with grey-brown head, olive yellow ear-coverts, green back, lower back and upper tail-coverts, bluish patch to the lower back, yellow-green breast and abdomen, green outer under wing-coverts, both mandibles are brown-blackish.

Immature - like female, green head is green; young males have bluish tinge to forehead; under wing-coverts partially red. The irises are greyish-yellow.

[edit] Distribution

Southern tip of Myanmar, peninsular South-western Thailand, Malaysia, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Rhio Archipelago and Banka Island.

[edit] Taxonomy

Three subspecies are recognized: cyanurus, abbotti, and pontius.

[edit] Habitat

Lowland forest areas, below 700m, open woodland, orchards and plantations, mangroves, dense scrub, and coconut groves.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes seeds, fruit and blossoms.

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