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Duchess Lorikeet  

Also Known As: Margaret's Lorikeet, Princess Margaret's Lorikeet
 
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Credit: (c) Steve Milpacher
 
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Did You Know?
The Duchess Lorikeet is very acrobatic in its feeding techniques: it hangs upside down, scrambling from one branch to another and sipping nectar with ease.

Species Profile
Genus:
Charmosyna

Species:
margarethae

Size: Adult Weight:
20cm (7.8 in) 40-60g (1.4-2.1 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Male- mainly bright red in colour; purple/black hindcrown to occiput; olive/green rump and upper tail coverts; wide yellow band across chest; thin yellow collar on mantle bordered above by purple/black line; dull mauve/black lower breast; underwing band dull yellow; red tail tipped with yellow. Bill orange. Eye yellow/orange. Female- as in male but with yellow patches on sides of rump.

Colourization Juvenile: Breast band yellow and faint; yellow collar on mantle with dusky wash; red hindcrown to occiput washed with dusky black; black markings on feathers of head and underparts. Bill brown/black. Eye pale grey.

Call: Calls made in flight are loud and high-pitched; high-pitched screek notes emitted while feeding. Calls are in general more squeaky than other lorikeets.

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Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E051.htm&Pic=051_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=1382&m=0

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

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.