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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.

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