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Western Rosella

From Opus

Platycercus icterotis
Photo by Tony BrownPhoto taken: Nannup, Western Australia.
Photo by Tony Brown
Photo taken: Nannup, Western Australia.

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[edit] Identification

30cm.

Male: Red head, chest and belly, yellow cheeks, green and blue wings.

Female: green head, red/green chest and belly, green and blue wings.

[edit] Distribution

Southern Western Australia.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Open forests, sparse woodlands and farmlands.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes grass seeds foraged off the ground.

They nest in hollow tree trunks; the female incubates the eggs and leaves in the morning and afternoon to eat food found by the male.

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