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GREEN ROSELLA FACTS |
Description
A medium-sized, broad-tailed parrot. Head and neck is greenish-yellow with a blue cheek patch and a red band across the forehead. Body colour varies from dull green to pale yellow breast feathers, darker across the back due to black mottling on the wings. Tail is mostly dark blue, green above and pale blue below. When closed, the rings show a blue patch on the shoulder. Juveniles are similar to adults, but have much duller and more olive plumage. Legs and feet grey; bill is pearl grey.
Green Rosellas are endemic to Tasmania and the larger Bass Strait islands. They nest in tree hollows, broken branches or trunks of eucalyptus trees. Their food consists of a range of grass and shrub seeds as well as fruit, buds, flowers and insects. They lay four to eight eggs in a wood dust lined nest. Pairs of birds are thought to mate for life. Outside the breeding season, the birds may congregate in flocks of mixed age birds.
Author credit: Kathryn Medlock / Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
Habitat
Temperate rainforest, wet and dry sclerophyll forest and eucalypt woodland.
Food
Omnivore
Range
Tasmania
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Psittaciformes | | Family: | Psittacidae | | Genus: | Platycercus | | Species: | caledonicus | | Common Name: | Green Rosella |
Relatives in same Genus
Pale-headed Rosella (P. adscitus)
Crimson Rosella (P. elegans)
Eastern Rosella (P. eximius)
Western Rosella (P. icterotis)
Northern Rosella (P. venustus)
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