Yellow-cheeked Lorikeet - BirdForum Opus

Alternative Name: Meyer's Lorikeet

Trichoglossus meyeri

Identification

21 cm

upperside green with a few yellow specks on the back
forehead olive-yellow
auriculars yellow with bases of lower feathers green giving a barred effect towards chin
crown brownish-yellow
throat and breast yellow with dark green scalloping
wings green (without yellow spots); primaries darker
flanks to undertail coverts yellow-green
underwing coverts yellow-green
bill reddish orange
eye-ring blueish
eye red

Formerly included in "Yellow-and-green Lorikeet" together with Sula Lorikeet.

Formerly placed in genus Trichoglossus.

This is a monotypic species [1].

Forests mostly in hilly areas but can occur both higher and lower elevation; sometimes seen in more open areas.

Mostly seen in flocks when searching for flowering trees.

Their natural diet consists of blossoms, particularly from Erythrina and Euphorbia.

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Rasmussen, P. C., N. Collar, J. del Hoyo, and G. M. Kirwan (2021). Yellow-cheeked Lorikeet (Saudareos meyeri), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.yaglor2.01
World Parrot Trust

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Yellow-cheeked Lorikeet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 28 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-cheeked_Lorikeet

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