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Species Profile

Genus:
Platycercus

Species:
adscitus

Size:	Adult Weight:
30cm (11.7 in)	95-120g (3.3-4.2 oz)

Races including nominate:
two: P.a. adscitus, P.a. palliceps

Colourization Adult: P.a. adscitus: male-pale yellow crown to ear coverts; white upper cheek patches, blue lower; yellow upper breast; blue lower breast and abdomen; red undertail coverts; black back with pale yellow mottling; blue outer wing coverts. Bill white. Eye brown. Female-in general duller than male; pale underwing stripe present. P.a. palliceps: both adults plumage variable; green/blue rump and upper tail coverts; yellow/white head; golden/yellow mottling to back; blue underparts reaching into yellow/white breast, but variably blue may reach up to throat and lower cheeks. Slightly larger in size.

Colourization Juvenile: P.a. adscitus: grey crown and nape, tipped yellow or orange/red; pale yellow underparts; pale underwing stripe present. P.a. palliceps: as in juvenile adscitus, but green/blue rump and upper tail coverts.

Call: Contact call while in flight described as sharp and short; while perched a three syllable whistle on ascending scale or metallic piping. Alarm call is shrill and screechy. Feeding is done in silence. In treetops there is much soft chattering in groups.

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