Photographed at Airey Inlet, Victoria, February 2015 |
496 BLUE-WINGED PARROT Neophema chrysostoma
Australia (337)
20 -23 cm. Found in open woodlands, coastal scrubs, dune, salt marsh vegetation, mallee, mulga, salt-bush, wetlands-edges, alpine meadows, airfields, saltfields, golf courses, paddocks, crops, orchards. Range: breeds e., n. Tasmania; s. Victoria, n. to Grampians NP, and in se. SA; migrates March-April to inland NSW, sw Q. and e. SA to Eyre Pen., returning Aug-Oct.
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