Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot
Encyclopedia
The Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot, Loriculus galgulus, is a small (length: 5 inches, 13 cm) mainly green parrot
found in forested lowlands from Thailand
to Borneo
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Its diet includes flowers, buds, fruits, nuts and seeds.
Parrot
Parrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three families: the Psittacidae , the Cacatuidae and the Strigopidae...
found in forested lowlands from Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
to Borneo
Borneo
Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....
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Its diet includes flowers, buds, fruits, nuts and seeds.
Description
Blue-crowned Hanging Parrots are mostly green and the adults have black beaks. Adult males are have a blue crown, red throat, red rump, and a yellow lower back. Adult females are duller than males and lack the yellow lower back, usually lack the red throat, and the blue crown is much less noticeable. The juveniles are duller than the female, and have a gray forehead and a horn colored beak.Breeding
Blue-crowned Hanging Parrots nest in tree cavities. There are usually three eggs in a clutch. The female incubates the eggs for 20 days and the chicks leave the nest about 33 days from hatching.External links
- World Parrot Trust Parrot Encyclopedia - Species Profile
- BirdLife Species Factsheet
- Oriental Bird Images: Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot Selected photos