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Rock Parrot  

Also Known As: Rock Grass-Parakeet, Rock Elegant Parakeet
 
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Rock Parrot, male, Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia

Credit: (c) Ian Montgomery | http://birdway.com.au
 
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Allowing a Rock Parrot to become overweight in captivity can reduce its ability to breed successfully due to low fertility.

Species Profile
Genus:
Neophema

Species:
petrophila

Size: Adult Weight:
22cm (8.6 in) 44-67g (1.5-2.3 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Both adults brown/olive crown and upperparts; wide dark blue frontal band, edged with pale blue above and below; face dull blue; breast dull olive; abdomen olive/yellow, sometimes suffused with orange in centre; bright yellow undertail coverts and undertail; bend of wing and outside lesser and secondary wing coverts soft purple/blue; pale blue middle secondary and lesser wing coverts; light underwing band. Bill dark grey. Eye dark brown.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adults but duller with front band or blue on face absent; pale underwing band present. Bill yellow/brown.

Call: Call is said to be plaintive while bird is in flight, notes repeated frequently. While feeding emits occasional tittering notes.

Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E145.htm&Pic=145_1.JPG

Central Pets http://www.centralpets.com/animals/birds/parrots/prt6018.html

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

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html

Internet Bird Collectionhttp://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/" title=" http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/"> 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, Forshaw, 2006.