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- Poicephalus gulielmi
Alternative name: Jardine's Parrot
Identification
32 cm. Large, largely green parrot with red or orangy blaze on forehead to crown. Both sexes appear the same.
- body mid green
- wings and mantle darker, with dark/blackish feather centres
- underparts brighter and more yellow due to broadly yellow feathers with green fringing
- leading edge of wing with variable red patches
- under wing dark
- upper tail dark
- eye golden or amber
- orbital skin variably orange or white (age-related?)
- cere variably orangy or whitish
- loral area often with extensive dark patch
- bill has upper mandible with extensive pale patch from base with a variably darker cutting edge. Lower mandible dark
- thighs green but with distal part orange-red
- feet may be orangy or greyish
Immatures lack the forehead/crown red; this being replaced by dark feathers. Illustrations in [2] suggest that leg colour may be grey in immatures and orangy in adult birds but it's not clear if this is a real distinction.
(ID description based on references [2], [3], [4])
Distribution
Taxonomy
Subspecies
Clements recognises the following subspecies [1]:
- P. g. fantiensis: Liberia to Ivory Coast and Ghana [forehead back as far as (exceptionally) rear of crown orange]
- P. g. gulielmi: Cameroon to northern Angola eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and west Uganda [forehead back as far as (exceptionally) rear of crown orange red]
- P. g. massaicus: Western Kenya and northern Tanzania [forehead to less than mid-crown only red (not orange)]
(Subspecies descriptions based on references [2], [3], [4])
Habitat
Behaviour
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Forshaw, J.M. & Knight, F. (2010). Parrots of the World. Princeton Field Guides. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691142852.
- African Bird Club Image Database. Available at https://www.africanbirdclub.org/image-database/
- Macauley Library at https://www.macaulaylibrary.org
