- Neophema splendida
Identification
19 cm (7½ in)
Male
- Bright green upperparts
- Blue face
- Scarlet foreneck and centre of breast
- Orangey-yellow lower underparts and undertail
- Blue upper wing coverts
- Green central tail feathers
- Black bill
- Brownish-grey eye
Female
- Blue on face is paler
- Blue lores
- Green breast
- Pale blue upper wing coverts
- Varying amount of pale underwing stripe
- Dark grey bill
Similar Species
Distribution
Interior of southern Australia.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species[1].
Habitat
Dry mallee-mulga scrub.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet consists of grass and herbaceous seeds, fruit, blossom, fruit and flower buds, and insects.
Breeding
They breed generally from August to January. They lay 3 - 6 white eggs in a tree hole. The clutch is incubated by the female for approximately 18 days. The young fledge approx 4 weeks later.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved August 2015)
- All About Parrots
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Scarlet-chested Parrot. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 4 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Scarlet-chested_Parrot
