- Psittinus cyanurus
Includes: Simeulue Parrot
Identification
18cm
- Green
- Red shoulder patches
- Yellowish margins on wing coverts
Male
- Black mantle
- Greyish-blue head and rump
- Blue forehead and crown
- Greyish-olive underparts
- Greenish-yellow thighs and under tail-coverts
- Bluish-black upperparts
- Blue lower back and upper tail-coverts
- Red sides of body and wing-coverts
- Green wings and greater wing-coverts
- Upperside of tail greenish-yellow and underside yellow
- Red upper mandible
- Brownish-black lower mandible
- Light yellow iris
- Grey feet
Female
- Greyish-brown head
- Olive yellow ear-coverts
- Green back, lower back and upper tail-coverts
- Bluish patch on lower back
- Yellowish-green breast and abdomen
- Green outer under wing-coverts
- Both mandibles are brown-blackish
Immature - like female, green head is green; young males have bluish tinge to forehead; under wing-coverts partially red. The irises are greyish-yellow.
Distribution
Found from the Thai-Malay Peninsula (comprising south Tenasserim, southern Thailand, Peninsula Malaysia and Singapore) to Sumatra and Borneo.
Taxonomy
Simeulue Parrot was formerly included in Blue-rumped Parrot.
Subspecies
Clements recognizes these subspecies[1]:
- P. c. cyanurus: Southern Thailand to southern Tennasserim in southern Myanmar, Peninsula Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo
- P. c. pontius: Mentawi Island (Siberut, Sipura, North Pagai and South Pagai)
Habitat
Lowland forest areas, below 700m, open woodland, orchards and plantations, mangroves, dense scrub, and coconut groves.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes seeds, fruit and blossoms.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2012. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2012. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
- Avibase
- AvianWeb
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Blue-rumped Parrot. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 12 November 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Blue-rumped_Parrot
External Links
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