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Turquoise Parrot  

Also Known As: Turquoise Grass-Parakeet, Turquoisine Parrot or Grass-Parakeet, Beautiful Parrot or Grass-Parakeet, Chestnut-shouldered Parrot or Grass-Parakeet, Chestnut-winged Parrot or Grass-Parakeet, Red-shouldered Parrot or Grass-Parakeet, Grass Parrot
 
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Turquoise Parrot perched

Credit: (c) Tom Turrant | http://www.aviceda.org/abid/
 
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Did You Know?
The female Turquoise Parrot will tuck leaves into the feathers of her rump and carry them to her nest.

Species Profile
Genus:
Neophema

Species:
pulchella

Size: Adult Weight:
20cm (7.8 in) 35-46g (1.2-1.6 oz)

Races including nominate:
one

Colourization Adult: Male-deep blue face; bright green upperparts; bright yellow underparts and underside of tail, tinged with orange on upper breast; variable orange patch on centre of abdomen; blue underwing coverts with brown/red on innermost median wing coverts, forming "patch"; bright green uppertail. Bill grey/black. Eye brown/grey. Female-paler blue face; buff/white lores; pale green breast; yellow underparts and undertail, more often suffused with orange on centre of abdomen than male; shoulder markings absent; upper wing coverts paler blue; pale underwing stripe.

Colourization Juvenile: As in adult female, but males generally with darker blue face and a bit of brown/red on inner median wing coverts, forming "patch."

Call: Calls made in flight are soft, metallic notes. Weaker, high-pitched twittering is made while feeding or at roost. A rapid, high-pitched series of short notes from male when alarmed, and lower, harsher sounds from female.

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Content Sources:

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

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E147.htm&Pic=147_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=1486&m=0

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

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.

A Guide to Incubation and Handraising Parrots, Digney, 1998.