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Salvadori's Fig Parrot
Also Known As: Whiskered Fig Parrot
Salvadori’s Fig Parrot perched
Credit: © Mehd Halaouate | http://www.indonesien.nu/indonesieneng/index.shtml
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Did You Know?
The Salvadori's Fig Parrot was the last fig parrot to be discovered in 1880.
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Not AvailableSpecies Profile
Genus:Psittaculirostris
Species:
salvadorii
| Size: | Adult Weight: |
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| 19cm (7.4 in) | 118g (4.1 oz) |
Races including nominate:
one
Colourization Adult: Male- golden yellow longish feathers of cheeks and ear coverts; blue stripe behind eye; red/orange wide band across chest with pale blue patch on each side of breast which varies from bird to bird; orange/red edging on inner wing coverts; wide underwing stripes cream/yellow. Bill grey/black. Eye red. Female- wide pale blue band across breast with orange/rust markings on each side of breast which varies from bird to bird; yellow/green longish thin feathers on cheeks and ear coverts.
Colourization Juvenile: As in adult female but in general duller in colour; pale blue chest band faint or invisible. Eye red/brown.
Call: Calls while flying or perching include a stronger call that is a single short note, broken two or three times in a staccato trilling song. Weaker call is high-pitched and squeaky, but not shrill or staccato.
Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results
Content Sources:
Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E087.htm&Pic=087_1.JPG
BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1423&m=0
CITES http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/species.html
Article "Fig Parrots: The Hookbills That Won't Be Tamed", by Ron Kasper, ParrotChronicles.com http://www.parrotchronicles.com/summer2002/speciesspotlight.htm
Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World, Juniper and Parr, 1998.
Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.
Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.
Parrots: Their Care and Breeding, Low, 1986.
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