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Species Profile

Genus:
Psephotus

Species:
varius

Size:	Adult Weight:
28cm (11 in)	50-70g (1.75-2.5 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Male-in general bright green; frontal band yellow; hindcrown patch brown/red; yellow abdomen and thighs, with varying red marks; green rump and tail coverts, with brown/red near base of tail, and yellow/green band across rump; dark blue/green line across lower back; wing patch bright yellow. Bill dark grey. Eye brown. Female-brown/olive head, back and upper breast; pale green lower breast to undertail coverts; orange/yellow faint frontal band, often tinted with brown/red; dull red/brown patch on hindcrown; wing patch red.

Colourization Juvenile: Juvenile females duller than adult female; pale green outer lesser wing coverts margined with red; juvenile males much duller than adult male, with red on abdomen and thighs minimal or absent.

Call: Contact call soft and twittering, repeated rapidly three or four times; also soft, musical chattering while perched.

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