Plum headed Parakeet

Plum headed Parakeet 33–37 cm; 56–85 g. Bill yellowish above, black below; head crimson shading to greyish plum on mid-crown to nape and ear-coverts; black chin extending as a complete narrow collar, shaded blue-green below on back and sides of neck; underparts yellowish-green;

mantle and back green, shading darker on wing-coverts, with a maroon patch on lesser wing-coverts, and darker again on flight-feathers; rump light blue-green, tail blue-tipped whitish centrally, green-tipped yellow laterally.

The Female has a purplish-grey head with no black, instead of an indistinct complete narrow yellowish neck-ring, no maroon wing-patch, creamy upper mandible. Immature has a green head, orange on forecrown.

Contents hide

1 Systematics History

1.1 Meet my new baby Plum-Headed Parakeet

7 Sounds and Vocal Behavior

7.1 Talking Plum Headed Parrot | Talking Parrot | Talking Parakeet | Tamed Parrot

8 Breeding

9 Conservation Status

10 plum headed parakeet price

10.1 Plum headed Parakeet sounds(Cotys mum and Dad ,Red &Violet)

Systematics History

Birds decrease clinically in size from N to S, and head and rump become darker, but limits to proposed N subspecies bengalensis are too indistinct to make the name useful.

Meet my new baby Plum-Headed Parakeet

SOURCE: Love of Pets

Form rosa, in past erroneously associated with P. rosetta, is a synonym of cyanocephala. Artificial hybrids of present species and P. himalayana is shown to be responsible for the form treated in HBW as P. intermedia. Monotypic.

plum head parakeet female

Plum head Parakeet

Subspecies

Monotypic.

Distribution

Indian Subcontinent from NE Pakistan to Bhutan and S to Sri Lanka.

Habitat

Moist deciduous forest and wooded habitats and adjacent clearings and cultivated areas in lowlands and hills to c. 1300 m, using pine zone Pinus roxburghii in Pakistan foothills.

Movement

Resident, but with marked local movements in response to the food supply.

Diet and Foraging

More frugivorous than most Psittacula parakeets, and prefer small to large seeds. Fruit of Ficus and Ziziphus, buds, fleshy petals, and nectar of plants such as Adhatoda vasica, Punica granatum, Salmalia, Butea, and Bassia,

seeds of thistles Echinops and Cnicus; feeding in Casuarina also noted. Sometimes visits cultivations inside the forest in flocks of several hundred, doing much damage to crops including rice, sorghum, maize, vegetables, and orchard fruit.

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Sounds and Vocal Behavior

The commonest vocalization is a steeply up slurred nasal whistle, “huEET!”. When perched, utters a wider variety of nasal squeaks and chirrups, often in song-like phrases or in loud chorus by several members of a group.

Talking Plum Headed Parrot | Talking Parrot | Talking Parakeet | Tamed Parrot

SOURCE: InnoRative

Breeding

Dec-Apr; in Sri Lanka also occasionally Jul–Aug. Nest in a hole in tree trunk or bough, often in small colonies within one tree or group of trees; tall Pinus roxburghii are favored in Pakistan, while a Parkia recorded in Sri Lanka.

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