Saturday, November 8, 2014

TURQUOISE PARROT

Photographed in Warrumbungle National Park, Coonabarabran, November 2014. The only shot I could get of this elusive parrot. 
316         TURQUOISE PARROT              Neophema pilchella

Australia         (274)

19-21 cm. Range e. half of NSW and up just past Brisbane, just into the border of Victoria. Found in open grassy woodlands, with dead trees and near water and forested hills, coastal heaths, pastures with exotic grasses, roadside weeds and orchards.

Photographed at Warrumbungles, December 2014




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