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Orange-headed Parrot  

Also Known As: Bald Parrot, Orange-headed Bald Parrot
 
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Orange-headed Parrot perched

Credit: (c) Arthur Grosset | http://www.arthurgrosset.com
 
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The Orange-headed Parrot and the Vulturine Parrot are the only two species of parrot with bald heads.

Species Profile
Genus:
Pionopsitta

Species:
aurantiocephala

Size: Adult Weight:
23cm (9 in) Not available

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults in general yellow/green; orange head bare; green/yellow hindneck; orange/yellow bend of wing and scapulars; red carpal edge and underwing coverts; dull olive/yellow upper breast; yellow thighs. Bill dark grey with orange at base of upper mandible. Eye orange.

Colourization Juvenile: Orange, bare lores to area around eyes, the rest of head feathered and dull green; yellow/green upper breast. Bill yellow in very young birds.

Call: Undescribed.

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Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E3021.htm&Pic=3021_1.JPG

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=31070&m=0

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

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.