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Male Red-rumped parrot.
Photograph copyright: Nickolay Tilcheff - all rights reserved. Used with permission.
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Male and female. The female is duller in colour.
Photograph copyright: Nickolay Tilcheff - all rights reserved. Used with permission.
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RED-RUMPED PARROT FACTS |
Description
The Red-rumped Parrot is a medium-sized greenish parrot. the male has a blue-green head, a red rump, with yellow underside. The female is a duller, olive-green, with a green rump and lighter underside.
Size
26cm
Habitat
grasslands, woodlands, farmlands
Food
seeds, grasses, fruit and flowers
Breeding
Nests in a hollow in a eucalypt tree. Lays 3-7 eggs on dust at bottom of the hollow.
Range
Found in most of New South Wales and Victoria, and southern parts of 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: | Psephotus | | Species: | haematonotus | | Common Name: | Red-rumped Parrot |
Relatives in same Genus
Golden-shouldered Parrot (P. chrysopterygius)
Hooded Parrot (P. dissimilis)
Mulga Parrot (P. varius)
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