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| - | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Great Egret]]'''</div> | + | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Australian Ringneck]]'''</div> |
| - | [[Image:Great_Egret.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Photo by {{user|Gene|Gene}}<br />[[Illinois]], April 2004]] | + | [[Image:29490Twenty-eight.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Twenty Eight, ''semitorquatus''<br />Photo by {{user|ChrisCharles|ChrisCharles}}]] |
| | + | ==Identification== |
| | + | 32-36 cm; variable species, but all subspecies share blue-green wings and tail and a yellow band across the rear nape<br /> |
| | + | ''Mallee Ringneck'': mostly green body, blue mantle and rear head, red band above the base of the bill, irregular band of orange-yellow across the belly. <br /> |
| | + | The "''Cloncurry Parrot''" has paler back, yellower underside and lacks red on forehead.<br /> |
| | + | Port ''Lincoln Ringneck'': yellow belly, head blackish, no red above bill. <br /> |
| | + | The ''Twenty Eight'': belly mostly green, darker than the above, red band above base of bill. |
| | + | ==Distribution== |
| | + | The Port Lincoln Ringneck is found in the western half of [[Australia]], the Mallee Ringneck in the eastern half, mainly south of the Tropic of Capricorn. |
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| - | ;[[:Category:Ardea|Ardea]] alba | + | '''[''[[Australian Ringneck|Read More...]]'']''' |
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| - | Height 101cm<br/> | + | |
| - | Weight 950g | + | |
| - | *Large white bird | + | |
| - | *Slightly smaller and with a much slimmer build than [[Great Blue Heron]] or [[Grey Heron]] | + | |
| - | *black legs/feet in American populations, but yellow in European birds of subspecies ''alba'' and greyish in non-breeding east Asian birds of subspecies ''modesta''. | + | |
| - | *bill yellow in most stages | + | |
| - | *In short "high breeding" period bill becomes black (at least in [[Europe]]) | + | |
| - | *lores yellow in most birds, but America birds show green lores in high breeding | + | |
| - | *In breeding plumage shows ornamental plumes | + | |
| - | Most of the year, distinguished from other egrets by combination of leg/foot and bill color. | + | |
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| - | A very widespread bird occurring in [[North America|North]] and [[South America]], [[Europe]], [[Africa]], [[Asia]] and [[Australasia]]. | + | |
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| - | '''[''[[Great Egret|Read More...]]'']''' | + | |
Revision as of 19:03, 31 May 2012
Identification
32-36 cm; variable species, but all subspecies share blue-green wings and tail and a yellow band across the rear nape
Mallee Ringneck: mostly green body, blue mantle and rear head, red band above the base of the bill, irregular band of orange-yellow across the belly.
The "Cloncurry Parrot" has paler back, yellower underside and lacks red on forehead.
Port Lincoln Ringneck: yellow belly, head blackish, no red above bill.
The Twenty Eight: belly mostly green, darker than the above, red band above base of bill.
Distribution
The Port Lincoln Ringneck is found in the western half of Australia, the Mallee Ringneck in the eastern half, mainly south of the Tropic of Capricorn.
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