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Lilac-tailed Parrotlet
Also Known As: Seven-colored Parrotlet, Black-winged Parrotlet, Scopoli's Parrotlet
Lilac-tailed Parrotlet, outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela
Credit: © Maria Isabel Fernandez
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Did You Know?
The Lilac-tailed Parrotlet nests in an arboreal termitarium (termite mound in a tree).
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Species Profile
Genus:Touit
Species:
batavica
| Size: | Adult Weight: |
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| 14cm (5.5 in) | 58-72g (2-2.5 oz) |
Races including nominate:
one
Colourization Adult: Both adults green/yellow head; brighter yellow with black scalloping on face and nape to sides of neck; black upperparts; rose/red carpal edge; pale blue foreneck tinted green; pale blue/green breast mixing into yellow/green on abdomen to undertail coverts; blue underwing coverts marked with yellow and red near to carpal edge and bordered with black along leading edge; purple central tail feathers; lateral tail feathers purple/lilac and barred with black near tip. Bill olive/yellow with grey at base. Eye ring grey. Eye yellow.
Colourization Juvenile: As in adults.
Call: Calls made in flight are soft and nasal, rising to a high-pitched, whining sound. Before taking flight emits weak, nasal calls, and short trilling or chattering notes.
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Content Sources:
Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E287.htm&Pic=287_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=1631&m=0
Internet Bird Collection http://ibc.lynxeds.com/
ML Media Collection Catalogue 8546, Lilac-tailed Parrotlet Touit batavica, Snow, David, Trinidad and Tobago, May 16 1959, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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.
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