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Port Lincoln Parrot in Alice Springs, Todd River, Australia
Image by Richard.Fisher - Some rights reserved.
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Port Lincoln Parrot or Port Lincoln Ringneck (Wroc?aw zoo)
Image by Guérin Nicolas - Some rights reserved.
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PORT LINCOLN PARROT FACTS
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Description
The Port Lincoln Parrot is the only Australian parrot that is green with a black head. It has yellow on back of neck and some yellow on chest. The bill is pale colour. Immatures are duller with brown head.
Other Names
Twenty Eight Parrot, Western Ringneck
Size
35-37cm
Habitat
found in a variety of habitats including wet coastal forests and woodlands, mallee and mulga scrub, roadsides, farmlands
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
Widespread in western half of Australia, most of Western Australia, western and central parts of South Australia and Northern Territory. Not found in the far tropical north
Notes
The Twenty Eight Parrot is named after the sound of its call
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Psittaciformes | | Family: | Psittacidae | | Genus: | Barnardius | | Species: | zonarius zonarius | | Common Name: | Port Lincoln Parrot |
Relatives in same Genus
Mallee Ringneck (B. zonarius bernardi)
Cloncurry Parrot (B. zonarius macgillivrayi)
Twenty-eight Parrot (B. zonarius semitorquatus)
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