Blue-rumped Parrot - BirdForum Opus

Subspecies cyanurus
Photo by SeeToh
Venus Loop, Singapore, May 2013

Psittinus cyanurus

Identification

18cm

• Green
• Red shoulder patches
• Yellowish margins on wing coverts
  

Male

• Black mantle
• Greyish-blue head and rump
• Blue forehead and crown
• Greyish-olive underparts
• Greenish-yellow thighs and under tail-coverts
• Bluish-black upperparts
• Blue lower back and upper tail-coverts
• Red sides of body and wing-coverts
• Green wings and greater wing-coverts
• Upperside of tail greenish-yellow and underside yellow
• Red upper mandible

Female, subspecies cyanurus
Photo by jweeyh
Singapore, 2013

• Brownish-black lower mandible
• Light yellow iris
• Grey feet
  

Female

• Greyish-brown head
• Olive yellow ear-coverts
• Green back, lower back and upper tail-coverts
• Bluish patch on lower back
• Yellowish-green breast and abdomen
• Green outer under wing-coverts
• Both mandibles are brown-blackish
  

Immature - like female, green head is green; young males have bluish tinge to forehead; under wing-coverts partially red. The irises are greyish-yellow.

Distribution

Found from the Thai-Malay Peninsula (comprising south Tenasserim, southern Thailand, Peninsula Malaysia and Singapore) to Sumatra and Borneo.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Three subspecies are recognized^[1]:

• P. c. cyanurus:

• Southern Thailand to southern Tennasserim in southern Myanmar, Peninsula Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo

• P. c. abbotti:

• Simeulue and Siumat islands (off west coast of Sumatra)

• P. c. pontius:

• Mentawi Island (Siberut, Sipura, North Pagai and South Pagai)

Habitat

Lowland forest areas, below 700m, open woodland, orchards and plantations, mangroves, dense scrub, and coconut groves.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes seeds, fruit and blossoms.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2012. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2012. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Avibase
3. AvianWeb

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Blue-rumped Parrot. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 29 April 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Blue-rumped_Parrot

External Links

Search for photos of Blue-rumped Parrot in the gallery

Search for videos of Blue-rumped Parrot on BirdForum TV