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BIRD FACTS |
Description
The Blue-faced Parrot-Finch is a brightly coloured finch with a blue head, green body and red rump and red upper surface on the tail. The female is similar to the male but has less blue on the face. Juveniles have all green head and duller tail.
Size
12 cm
Habitat
rainforest edges
Food
seeds, plants, insects
Breeding
The nest is pear shaped made of grass with an entrance tunnel.
Range
The Blue-faced Parrot-Finch is found on eastern Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. It is also found in Japan, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and other islands in the region
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: | Passeriformes | | Family: | Estrildidae | | Genus: | Erythrura | | Species: | trichroa | | Common Name: | Blue-faced Parrot-Finch |
Relatives in same Genus
Gouldian Finch (E. gouldiae)
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