Golden-shouldered Parrot - BirdForum Opus

Female on left, Male on Right
Photo by Hans&Judy Beste
Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, May 1986

Psephotus chrysopterygius

Identification

26 cm

Graphic by Nrg800

North-eastern Australia (interior southern Cape York Peninsula)

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Sparsly timbered woodland savannah. The seem to like sitting on termite mounds.

They mainly eat small grass seeds.

Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2014)

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Golden-shouldered Parrot. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 December 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Golden-shouldered_Parrot

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