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Friday, April 17, 2015

BOURKE'S PARROT

Photographed near Cue, Western Australia April 2015
569          BOURKE'S PARROT            Neopsephotus bourkii

Australia           (412)

Also known as Night or Sundown Parrot. 18- 22 cm. Found in mulga or other acacia scrubs; native cypress; open eucalypt woodlands. Ranges across s. interior, from c. Blackall-Cunnamulla (Q) and Walgett-Hilston (NSW), to w. coast WA, between Moore R. and NW Cape; n. to Devil's Marbles (NT), s. to Port Augusta-Gt Victorian Desert.