VARIED LORIKEET

Photographed at Running Creek, near Lawn Hill National Park, Queensland October 2015

722          VARIED LORIKEET            Psitteuteles versicolor

Australia           (564)

Found in tropical eucalypt, paperbark woodlands, flowering trees on foothills and coastal plains; trees on watercourses nd in grasslands. 17-20 cm. Range: tropical n. Aust., and coastal islands, from Kimberley (WA), Top End (NT), e. to n. -c. Q and w. Cape York Pen.; exceptionally e., to Atherton region (N. Q); good seasons inland cause irregular inland movement to Channel country of sw. Q. and elsewhere. Common Top End and Kimberley (WA); less common Q. Nomadic, irregular.