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Red-capped Parrot  

Also Known As: Pileated Parrot or Parakeet, King Parrot, Western King Parrot, Western Australian King Parrot, Hookbill
 
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Red-capped Parrot, male, Augusta, Western Australia

Credit: (c) Ian Montgomery | http://birdway.com.au
 
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Did You Know?
The elongated upper mandible of the Red-capped Parrot is adapted for dislodging the marri plant's large seeds, which are removed as the fruit is held in the bird's foot and rotated to and fro.

Species Profile
Genus:
Purpureicephalus

Species:
spurius

Size: Adult Weight:
37cm (14.4 in) 105-156g (3.6-5.5 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Male-dark red forehead to nape; yellow/green cheeks; dark green upperparts; green/yellow rump and upper tail coverts; purple/blue foreneck to abdomen and upper flanks; red lower flanks and thighs to undertail coverts intermixed with yellow/green; dark green tail, widely margined and tipped blue/white. Bill blue/grey. Eye dark brown. Female-in general duller than male; green line above eye, and variable green feather scattered through red crown; dull grey/mauve foreneck and chest, turning to purple/blue towards abdomen; underwing stripe, diminishing with age until absent.

Colourization Juvenile: Frontal band rust coloured; dull green crown, nape, throat and foreneck; dull red/brown on breast and abdomen; abdomen suffused with purple/blue; underwing stripe more evident in females. Bill horn coloured with dull yellow at base of lower mandible.

Call: Calls are described as distinctive and harsh, sometimes rapid. Also a series of sharp shrieks when alarmed. In defence of nest emits rapid chatter.

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Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E120.htm&Pic=120_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=1459&m=0

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

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

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

Parrots of the World, Forshaw and Cooper, 1977.

Parrots of the World, Forsaw, 2006.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.