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Species Profile

Genus:
Neophema

Species:
bourkii

Size:	Adult Weight:
19cm	40-50g

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Male-upperparts olive/brown; blue forehead; line above eyes blue; face gray/white; grey/pink throat and lower cheeks, upper cheeks olive/brown; grey/brown breast with grey/pink wide edging; rose/pink abdomen; blue tail coverts and rump; dark brown upper wing coverts and outer secondary feathers, margined with yellow/white; underwing band minimal or absent; black/brown tail with wide tip. Bill grey. Eye dark brown. Female-in general duller than male with paler pink underparts and paler blue sides of rump; blue on forehead and above eyes absent or minimal; has pale underwing band.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adult female but duller with pale underwing band which is less pronounced in male juvenile.

Call: Calls made in flight are mellow notes or plaintive warblings. Calls are softer and higher pitched than that of the Budgerigar, whose calls are similar.

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