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Subspecies cyanurus
Photo by SeeToh
Venus Loop, Singapore, May 2013
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
Female, subspecies cyanurus
Photo by jweeyh
Singapore, 2013
  • 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. 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

  1. 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
  2. Avibase
  3. AvianWeb

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External Links

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