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Goldie's Lorikeet  

Also Known As: Red-capped Streaked Lory
 
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Profile of pair of Goldie’s Lorikeets

Credit: (c) Sam Williams
 
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Did You Know?
The Goldie's Lorikeet was almost unknown in aviculture until the mid 1970s.

Species Profile
Genus:
Psitteuteles

Species:
goldiei

Size: Adult Weight:
19cm (7.4 in) 45-57g (1.5-2 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults in general green to yellow/green in colour, red crown, duller and less extensive in female; blue occiput; lilac/pink cheeks streaked with blue; yellow/green underparts streaked with dark green. Bill black. Eye brown.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adults but with red frontal band; green crown; dull grey/blue occiput; green cheeks washed with pale pink and blue. Bill brown. Eye brown.

Call: Calls are unusual hissing or wheezing sounds. Also soft, single syllable, whispery hissing while feeding.

Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Loriinae.com http://www.loriinae.com/spgoldies.html

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

The Online Monograph of the Lories and Lorikeets website

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E021.htm&Pic=021_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=1356&m=0

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

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.