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Sula Hanging Parrot  

Also Known As: Golden-backed Hanging Parrot, Sclater's Hanging Parrot
 
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Did You Know?
When the Sula Hanging Parrot flies one can hear a 'whirring' to its wings, much like a hummingbird.

Species Profile
Genus:
Loriculus

Species:
sclateri

Size: Adult Weight:
15cm (6 in) Not available

Races including nominate:
two: L.s. sclateri, L.s. ruber

Colourization Adult:
L.s. sclateri: both adults mainly green; red chin and throat; orange/yellow mantle and back; rump and upper tail coverts crimson, extending to tip of tail; red carpal edge; tail green tipped with yellow/green. Bill black. Eye pale yellow in male, brown in female. L.s. ruber: both adults as in sclateri, but with red mantle and back.

Colourization Juvenile: Undescribed.

Call: Calls are weak and high-pitched; also variously buzzy and di or trisyllabic notes that are repeated rapidly.

Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E183.htm&Pic=183_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=31549&m=0

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.