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Orange-cheeked Parrot  

Also Known As: Barraband's Parrot
 
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Orange-cheeked Parrot perching

Credit: © Robert Scanlon | http://www.pbase.com/rsscanlon
 
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The Orange-cheeked Parrot regularly visits clay banks (or licks) to consume the soil, an antacid-like dense soil which neutralizes toxins taken in by the parrots during their daily feedings.

Species Profile
Genus:
Pionopsitta

Species:
barrabandi

Size: Adult Weight:
25cm (9.75 in) 165-190g (5.8-6.7 oz)

Races including nominate:
two: P.b. barrabandi, P.b. aurantiigena

Colourization Adult: P.b. barrabandi: both adults black head; orange/yellow cheeks; olive throat and breast; yellow thighs; orange/yellow bend of wing and lesser wing coverts; orange/red carpal edge and underwing coverts. Bill grey/black. Eye ring bare and white. Eye brown. P.b. aurantiigena: both adults deep orange cheeks, bend of wing, lesser wing coverts and thighs, with no yellow.

Colourization Juvenile: P.b. barrabandi: brown crown; olive forehead, nape, cheeks and chin, with brown margin; green bend of wing and lesser wing coverts, with scattered yellow feathers; red carpal edge and underwing coverts with scattered green feathers.

Call: Calls are reported as distinctive; in flight calls reedy and slurred. Alarm calls gutteral.

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Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E299.htm&Pic=299_1.JPG

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

CITES http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/species.html

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1644&m=0

xeno-canto America http://www.xeno-canto.org/index.php

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

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.