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Yellow and Green Lorikeet  

Also Known As: Yellow-green Lorikeet, Sula Lorikeet, Meyer's Lorikeet (T.f. meyeri)
 
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Profile of Yellow and Green Lorikeet

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Did You Know?
The tongue of the Yellow and Green Lorikeet is specially adapted for harvesting pollen and nectar from flowers. It is tipped with elongated papillae (finger-like projections) to enable the bird to easily reach these food sources.

Species Profile
Genus:
Trichoglossus

Species:
flavoviridis

Size: Adult Weight:
20cm (7.8 in) 80-95g (2.8-3.3 oz) (flavoviridis), 40-50g (1.4-1.75 oz) (meyeri).

Races including nominate:
two: T.f. flavoviridis, T.f. meyeri

Colourization Adult: T.f. flavoviridis: both adults in general green; olive/yellow forehead and crown; nuchal collar brown; yellow throat and breast to abdomen, with dark green scalloping; yellow/green flanks to undertail coverts; yellow/green underwing coverts. Bill orange/yellow. Lores and eye-ring bare and pink/orange. Eye orange/yellow. T.f. meyeri: both adults upperparts darker green and less scalloped; green/brown hindcrown, occiput and nape; yellow cheeks and throat, widely barred with dusty green; yellow ear coverts. Lores and eye ring bare and grey. Smaller in size.

Colourization Juvenile: T.f. flavoviridis: more green where yellow markings are. Bill brown. Lores and eye-ring bare and white. Eye brown. T.f. meyeri: as in adults, but lores and eye ring paler.

Call: Calls made in flight are high-pitched and screechy. While feeding in flocks birds give series of moderately pitched, slurred squeaky chattering notes with upward inflection. Also emits high-pitched whistles.

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Content Sources:

Lexicon of Parrots http://www.arndt-verlag.com/projekt/birds_3.cgi?Desc=E016.htm&Pic=016_1.JPG

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

The Lory Link http://www.kcbbs.gen.nz/lori/ar/lories.html

CITES http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/species.html

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1350&m=0

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.