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MALLEE RINGNECK FACTS
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Description
The Mallee Ringneck is a medium sized parrot found in eucalypt woodlands and eucalypt-lined watercourses of in drier parts of northern Australia. It has green head and blue back with yellow ring on the neck.
Size
35-40cm
Habitat
lightly timbered areas, open woodlands and tree-lined watercourses
Food
feed mainly on the ground. They eat seeds, and some fruit, flowers, nectar and insects and their larvae
Breeding
lay 4-6 eggs in hollows in living or dead trees.
Range
arid eastern Northern Territory, north-western Queensland and inland eastern Australia
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Psittaciformes | | Family: | Psittacidae | | Genus: | Barnardius | | Species: | zonarius bernardi | | Common Name: | Mallee Ringneck |
Relatives in same Genus
Cloncurry Parrot (B. zonarius macgillivrayi)
Twenty-eight Parrot (B. zonarius semitorquatus)
Port Lincoln Parrot (B. zonarius zonarius)
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