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Buru Racquet-tailed Parrot  

Also Known As: Buru Racquet-tail
 
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Captive Buru Racquet-tailed Parrot

Credit: © Peter Odekerken | http://www.parrotimages.com.au
 
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Species Profile
Genus:
Prioniturus

Species:
mada

Size: Adult Weight:
32cm (12.5 in) Not available

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Male-nape to back of neck and mantle and lesser wing coverts blue/purple; lower back washed with blue/purple; blue on edge of forewing; pale yellow margins to inner webs of secondary feathers. Centre tail feathers green, racquets and side tail feathers green tipped with blue/black. Bill dark grey with paler grey at base; eye dark brown. Female-no blue/purple on back of neck or mantle, blue/purple less evident on nape, lesser wing coverts and bend of wing.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adult but no blue/purple on upperparts, except a bit on nape in males; blue on bend of wing; no bare tail shafts.

Call: Repetitive whistling and kwii kwii kwii notes; and lower pitched notes.

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Content Sources:

BirdLife Internationalhttp://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1441&m=0

CITES http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/species.html

Internet Bird Collection http://ibc.lynxeds.com/

Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World, Juniper and Parr, 1998.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.