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Chattering Lory  

Also Known As: Scarlet Lory, Yellow-backed Lory (L.g. flavopalliatus)
 
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Chattering Lory in a free flight aviary shortly after consuming fruit from a visitor.

Credit: © Steve Milpacher
 
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Up to 70% of a lory or lorikeet's day is spent foraging for food. This bird will fly up to 30 miles in a day to find a food source.

Species Profile
Genus:
Lorius

Species:
garrulus

Size: Adult Weight:
30cm (11.7 in) 180-250g (6.3-8.75 oz)

Races including nominate:
three: L.g. garrulus, L.g. flavopalliatus, L.g. morotaianus

Colourization Adult:
L.g. garrulus: both adults in general red, with scapulars having darker tint; yellow patch on mantle absent; green thighs and wings; yellow bend of wing and underwing coverts; pink/rose underwing stripe; red tail with black/green tip. Bill orange. Eye ring grey, eye orange/red. L.g. flavopalliatus: both adults as in garrulus but with yellow patch on mantle; brighter green on wings. L.g. morotaianus: both adults as in flavopalliatus but with yellow patch on mantle washed with green, duller and less extensive; darker green wings.

Colourization Juvenile:
L.g. garrulus: as in adults but with brownish bill, paler grey/white eye ring and brown eye. L.g. flavopalliatus: as in adults. L.g. mortaianus: as in adults.

Call: Calls are described as loud, nasal and quavery. Also makes braying sounds. Territorial calls while perched are raucous, two-syllable horn-like notes emitted singly or repeated two or three times.

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Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E029.htm&Pic=029_1.JPG

Busch Gardens/Sea World Camp Adventures

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

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1357&m=0

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

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

Parrots of the World, Forshaw and Cooper, 1977.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.