Showing posts with label Platycercus venustus. Show all posts
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Friday, May 22, 2015

NORTHERN ROSELLA

Photographed at Mornington Sanctuary, Kimberley, Western Australia, May 2015
612        NORTHERN ROSELLA        Platycercus venustus

Australia       (455)

28-30 cm. Usually found near water in grassy tropical woodlands and clearings; paperbarks, acacia scrublands, hill country, timber along watercourses, mangroves, roadsides, crops. occasionally gardens. Range: n. Australia: Kimberley (WA), e. from. Derby-Fitzroy Crossing; through Top End (NT), s. to Katherine-McArthur R., coastally, and on some islands e. to Nicholson R., far nw Q.