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| - | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Indian Vulture]]'''</div> | + | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Australian Ringneck]]'''</div> |
| - | [[Image:LBV 1 .jpg|thumb|250px|left|Photo by {{user|Jugal+Tiwari|Jugal Tiwari}}]] | + | [[Image:29490Twenty-eight.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Twenty Eight, ''semitorquatus''<br />Photo by {{user|ChrisCharles|ChrisCharles}}]] |
| - | ==Conservation Status== | + | ==Identification== |
| - | This species is becoming extremely rare. The rapid decline is thought to be due to the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug Diclofenac, which is used in southern [[Asia]] as a livestock treatment. It is extremely toxic to vultures when they feed on the carcasses of treated cattle. The drug causes fatal kidney failure. Populations of [[White-rumped Vulture]] and [[Slender-billed Vulture]] have also declined by more than 90 percent in the years from 1992 and 2000. On the basis of their catastrophic declines, the '''IUCN-World Conservation Union''' has listed these species as '''critically endangered''': the highest level of threat. | + | 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== | | ==Distribution== |
| - | Formerly common and widespread in the [[India]]n Subcontinent, from southeast [[Pakistan]] over much of [[India]]. Now very rare and local. Range poorly documented owing to widespread confusion with Slender-billed Vulture. | + | 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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| - | '''[''[[Indian Vulture|Read More...]]'']''' | + | '''[''[[Australian Ringneck|Read More...]]'']''' |
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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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