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Species Profile

Genus:
Poicephalus

Species:
gulielmi

Size:	Adult Weight:
28cm (10.9 in)	200-227g (7-8 oz)

Races including nominate:
three: P.g. gulielmi, P.g. fantiensis, P.g. massaicus

Colourization Adult:
P.g. gulielmi: both adults orange/red forecrown, thighs, bend of wing and carpal edge; dark green head and back with scalloping; upper mandible horn in colour tipped with black, lower mandible dark grey. Cere bare. Eye ring bare and pink/white. Eye orange/red. P.g. fantiensis: both adults orange forecrown; paler orange/red thighs, bend of wing, and carpal edge, sometimes orange like forecrown. Smaller in size. P.g. massaicus: both adults as in gulielmi but forehead only orange/red.

Colourization Juvenile:
P.g. gulielmi: red on forecrown absent; black frontal band reaching to lores, forecheeks and under eye; pale grey/green bend of wing and carpal edge; green thighs; upper mandible pink/white tipped with grey. Eye brown.

Call: Calls high-pitched and harsh, made in flight or while perched. Are repeated in quick bursts. Also a longer, whistling note. While feeding quieter whistling sounds emitted. Flocks are loud and contantly babbling.

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