ADELAIDE ROSELLA

Photographed at Victor Harbour, South Australia March 2015

530        ADELAIDE ROSELLA           Platycercus elegans adelaidae

AUSTRALIA          (371)

34-36 cm. Natural hybrid from Crimson/Yellow Rosellas; some are yellow, some washed red. Only found around Adelaide area from Fleurieu Peninsula to Flinders Ranges. Found in timbered valleys, open forests, woodlands, timbered watercourses, mallee, farmlands, roadsides, parks, gardens.

Juvenile Adelaide Rosella

ELEGANT PARROT

Photographed at a distance near Milang, South Australia March 2015

529          ELEGANT PARROT                 Neophema elegans

Australia          (370)

22-24 cm. Found in open forests, woodlands, scrubland, red river gums on watercourses, saltbush, mallee, mulga, clearings with rank growth, salt marshes. Range sw. WA and around Adelaide up to Flinders Ranges.

Next three photographs taken at Arno Bay, South Australia March 2015