Description
A slender, long-tailed, rosella with a pale yellow back, underparts and rump, with black spots on back feathers and scallops on underparts. Wings and tail dark blue and a black shoulder patch. Black head with large white cheek patch. Red vent (underside of the base of tail). Body size 28 to 30cm.
This elegant rosella is usually seen in pairs or small flocks. They go to drink in the early morning before feeding on seed on the ground or in trees and shrubs. They lay 2 to 4 white eggs in a tree hollow.
Author credit: Terry Mahney / Charles Darwin University
Habitat
Tropical open forests and woodlands, and well-timbered watercourses.
Food
Herbivore
Range
Northern Australia.
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: | venustus | | Common Name: | Northern Rosella |
Relatives in same Genus
Pale-headed Rosella (P. adscitus)
Green Rosella (P. caledonicus)
Crimson Rosella (P. elegans)
Eastern Rosella (P. eximius)
Western Rosella (P. icterotis)
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