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Ceylon Hanging Parrot  

Also Known As: Sri Lanka Hanging Parrot, Ceylon Lorikeet
 
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Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Hanging Parrot foraging

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The Ceylon Hanging Parrot will sometimes get intoxicated on palm wine!

Species Profile
Genus:
Loriculus

Species:
beryllinus

Size: Adult Weight:
13cm (5.1 in) Not available

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Small green parrot with short rounded tail. Both adults-red bill, white eye; red forecrown; blue throat, less so in female; nape and mantle washed with yellow/orange; rump and upper tail coverts dark red.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adult but overall plumage duller; forehead green/grey; crown washed with orange; mantle green; throat faintly blue. Bill orange/brown. Eye brown.

Call: Sharp notes in flight; also squeaky, warbling notes.

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Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E179.htm&Pic=179_1.JPG

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

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1516&m=0

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

xeno-canto Asia http://www.xeno-canto.org/index.php

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

Parrots of the World, Forshaw and Cooper, 1989.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.

Parrots: Their Care and Breeding, Low, 1986.