Red-rumped Parrot - BirdForum Opus

Photo © by Nora
Toolern Vale, Melbourne, Australia, October 2006

Psephotus haematonotus

Identification

Female
Photo © by Nora
SW Toolern Vale, Victoria, May 2018

27 cm (10½ in).

• Green head and breast
• Blue tinge to forehead and lower cheeks
• Yellow belly
• White white undertail-coverts
• Red rump
  

Female duller

• Pale olive underparts
• Dull green wings and back
• Blue-black wing tips
• She lacks the red rump

Distribution

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Endemic to Australia

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Adult and Juvenile
Photo © by Ken Doy
Dubbo, New South Wales, December 2018

There are 2 subspecies^[1]:

• P. h. caeruleus:

• South Australia (Lake Eyre region) and adjacent Queensland

• P. h. haematonotus:

• Scrub and riverine woodlands of interior south-eastern Australia

Habitat

Savanna grassland. Open woodland, mallee, riverine growth. Parks and gardens.

Behaviour

Diet

Their mainly vegetarian diet consists of seeds, grass and herbaceous plants.

Breeding

They nest in a tree hollow (usually in a eucalyptus) but may also utilise fence posts and tree stumps.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Oct 2017)
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Red-rumped Parrot. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 7 September 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Red-rumped_Parrot

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