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PRINCESS PARROT FACTS |
Description
The Princess Parrot is a beautiful slender parrot with soft delicate colours. It is mainly olive green with pale blue on top of head, pink throat, lime green shoulders, pale blue rump. The female is duller with shorter tail.
Other Names
Princess Alexandra Parrot
Size
male 46cm, female 34cm
Habitat
treed areas along dry creeks, mulga, spinifex grass
Food
seeds of grasses and other herbs.
Breeding
nests in hollow of tree such as eucalypt or casuarina. Lays 4-6 glossy white eggs.
Range
interior central and western Australia
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Conservation Status
The conservation status in the 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals is "lower risk/near threatened".
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Psittaciformes | | Family: | Psittacidae | | Genus: | Polytelis | | Species: | alexandrae | | Common Name: | Princess Parrot |
Relatives in same Genus
Regent Parrot (P. anthopeplus)
Superb Parrot (P. swainsonii)
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