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Sangihe Hanging Parrot
Also Known As: Sangir Hanging Parrot
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Did You Know?
The female hanging parrot carries dried material in the feathers of her rump to line her newly-built nest.
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Not AvailableSpecies Profile
Genus:Loriculus
Species:
catamene
| Size: | Adult Weight: |
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| 12cm (4.7 in) | Not recorded |
Races including nominate:
one
Colourization Adult: Male-in general plumage green; red forehead and forecrown; back and lower mantle tinted with orange/yellow; red chin and throat; carpal edge of wing yellow/green; red rump and upper tail coverts, the latter reaching to tip of tail; undertail coverts orange/red thinly margined with green; tail green tipped with red. Bill black. Eye yellow/white. Female-green crown; red spots on forehead, and irregular red spots on throat. Eye brown.
Colourization Juvenile: As in female. Eye pale brown.
Call: Unusual and high-pitched trilling with sharp beginning note. Also single notes given in flight.
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Content Sources:
Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E183.htm&Pic=183_1.JPG
Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World, Juniper and Parr, 1998.
Parrots: Status Survey and Conservation Plan 2000-2004, Snyder, McGowan, Gilardi and Grajal, 2000.
Parrots of the World, Forshaw and Cooper, 1977.
Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.
Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.
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