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Green Hanging Parrot  

Also Known As: Small Sulawesi Hanging Parrot, Red-billed Hanging Parrot, Lilliput Hanging Parrot, Tulabula Hanging Parrot
 
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Did You Know?
Hanging parrots hang upside down when roosting or at rest.

Species Profile
Genus:
Loriculus

Species:
exilis

Size: Adult Weight:
11cm (4.3 in) Not available

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Male- in general green in colour; red spot encircled by blue/green on throat; red rump and upper tail coverts, basally washed with yellow; green tail tipped with green/yellow. Bill red. Eye yellow. Female- as in male but red spot on throat minimal or missing. Eye brown.

Colourization Juvenile: Red on throat missing. Bill yellow/brown. Eye pale brown.

Call: Single note calls; sad and plaintive. Contact calls are not heard from great distances.

Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E185.htm&Pic=185_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=1524&m=0

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 in Aviculture, Low, 1992.