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Swift Parrot  

Also Known As: Swift Lorikeet, Swift-flying Parakeet or Lorikeet, Red-faced Parrot or Parakeet, Red-shouldered Parrot or Parakeet
 
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Swift Parrot perched in bush

Credit: © Nora Peters | http://www.ozwildbirds.com
 
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Did You Know?
The Swift Parrot has a brush-like tongue as lories and lorikeets do. They also consume the sugary lerps (sweet secretions) of insects.

Species Profile
Genus:
Lathamus

Species:
discolor

Size: Adult Weight:
25cm (9.75 in) 46-76g (1.6-2.7 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Male-in general green; face red bordered with yellow; dull red undertail coverts; dark red underwing coverts, bend of wing, and lesser wing coverts; tertial feathers on inner webs tipped with red; dull brown/red tail tipped with dark blue; varying underwing stripe. Bill brown/white. Eye orange/yellow. Female-in general duller than male; red on face less than in male, and bisected by yellow lores; varying underwing stripe.

Colourization Juvenile: In general duller than adult female; dull yellow undertail coverts wash with pale pink/red; underwing stripe white. Bill brown. Eye brown.

Call: Calls are described as sharp and penetrating notes repeated up to 20 or 30 times in 10 seconds. While feeding emits soft, chirruping notes and a series of muscial, warbling notes from the males.

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Content Sources:

BirdCare http://www.birdcare.com.au/swift_parrot.htm

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E149.htm&Pic=149_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=1488&m=0

Internet Bird Collection http://ibc.lynxeds.com/

xeno-canto Australasia http://www.xeno-canto.org/

Parrots: Status Survey and Conservation Plan 2000-2004, Snyder, McGowan, Gilardi and Grajal, 2000.

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.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.