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Psittacula himalayana

Photo by Rajiv Lather
Photo taken: Mussoorie Hills, India.

[edit] Identification

40cm. Green with blue tint, dark grey head with blue tint, black chin and wide stripe across lower cheeks, fine black line around hindneck, band around hindneck under black line green/blue;deep red patch on inner wing coverts, missing in females, long central tail feathers in male, shorter in female, green at base of tail becoming deep blue and widely tipped with bright yellow. Red upper mandible, pale yellow lower. Eye pale yellow.

Juvenile: Grey/green face, remainder of head dull green with faint pale green stripe below cheeks to hindcrown; maroon wing patch absent; short tail. Bill orange. Eye grey

[edit] Distribution

Western Himalayas in Pakistan, the Republic of India till Arunachal Pradesh.

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