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ECLECTUS PARROT FACTS |
Description
The Eclectus Parrot is a brightly coloured parrot from the rainforest of Queensland. The sexes are completely different colours. The male is bright green with a large orange bill, and the female is deep red with black bill.
Size
45cm
Habitat
tropical rainforests.
Food
fruit, nuts, seeds, flowers and nectar
Breeding
Nests are in wood chip-lined hollows of emergent trees in the rainforest
Range
endemic to Queensland
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Psittaciformes | | Family: | Psittacidae | | Genus: | Eclectus | | Species: | roratus | | Common Name: | Eclectus Parrot |
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