Blue Bonnet Parrots
Psephotus
Description:
General plumage olive-brown; forehead, lores, front of crown, ear-coverts and forward cheek area mauve-blue; ear-coverts with dull yellowish streaking; remainder of head, back and lower back olive-grey; throat and upper breast dull olive-brown, each feather washed pale brown; lower breast, sides of abdomen and under tail-coverts yellow; patch to abdomen and parts of thigh deep red; bend of wing, primary-coverts, outer webs of primaries and under wing-coverts violet-blue; shoulder feathers and outer lesser wing-coverts blue; median, inner lesser wing-coverts and inner secondary-coverts olive; outer secondary-coverts olive with broad blue marking; rump and upper tail-coverts olive; upperside of middle tail-feathers bronze-green with dark blue tips, outer tail-feathers dark-blue with whitish-blue tips; tail underside white-bluish; bill grey-horn colour; narrow periophthalmic ring grey; iris grey-brown; feet grey-brown.
Female as male, but with duller blue facial area; red to abdomen and thighs much less extensive; white under-wing stripe; head and bill on average smaller.
Immatures as adults, but with much duller plumage; much less red to abdomen and thighs; under-wing stripe
present; adult plumage attained by 12 months. 
Length: 30 cm (12 ins)
Distribution / Status in the Wild:
CITES II - Endangered Species Distribution: Western and southern New South Wales, north-western Victoria, south-eastern South Australia
Names:
Genus: Scientific: Northiella ... English: Blue-Bonnets ... Dutch: Blauwkapparkieten ... German Rotsteißsittichen ... French: Perruche à queue rouge Species: Scientific: Northiella haematogaster haemetogaster aka Psephotus haematogaster haematogaster ... English: Blue-bonnet, yellow-vented Blue-bonnet ... Dutch: Blue-Bonnet Parkiet ... German: Blutbauchsittich, Gelbsteißsittich
... French: Perruche à anus jaune
Related Websites: Lexicon of Parrots
Sub-species
Naretha Blue-Bonnet Parrots: Genus: Scientific : Northiella ... English: Blue-Bonnets ... Dutch: Blauwkapparkieten ... German: Rotsteißsittichen ... French: Perruche à queue rouge Species: Scientific: Northiella haematogaster narethae aka Psephotus haematogaster narethae ... English: Naretha Blue-Bonnet ... Dutch: Naretha Blue-Bonnet Parkiet ... German: Narethasittich ... French: Perruche à anus rouge de Naretha
Description: As Blue-bonnet Parrots (haematogaster) - above, but plumage generally much paler brown-grey; forehead, lores and area over eye greenish-blue; no red to abdomen and thighs; under tail-coverts red; bend of wing and shoulder feathers greenish-blue to pale mauve-blue; outer lesser wing-coverts orange-red; rump, upper tail-coverts, inner lesser and median wing-coverts pale olive-yellow; upperside of middle tail-feathers olive with blue tips; on average slightly smaller. Female as male, but with slightly duller plumage; facial area duller blue; head and bill generally smaller. Immatures as adults, but with slightly duller plumage; adult plumage attained by 12 months. Length: 28 cm (11 ins) CITES II - Endangered
Species
Distribution: Southern Australia
Related Websites: Lexicon
of Parrots Please scroll down to no. 4
- click on link to view photo.)
Pallid Yellow-vented Blue-Bonnets: Genus: Scientific: Northiella ... English: Blue-Bonnets ... Dutch: Blauwkapparkieten ... German : Rotsteißsittichen ... French: Perruche à queue rouge
Species: Scientific: Northiella haematogaster pallescens aka Psephotus haematogaster pallescens ... English: Pallid Yellow-vented Blue-Bonnet ... Dutch: Bleke Blue-Bonnet Parkiet ... German: Blasser Gelbsteißsittich ... French: Perruche à anus pale
Description: As Blue-bonnet Parrots (haematogaster) - above, but plumage generally
much paler. Female as male; head and bill on average smaller. Length: 30 cm (12 ins)
CITES II - Endangered Species Distribution: South Australia
Related Websites: Lexicon of Parrots (Please scroll down to no. 3 - click on link to view photo.)
Red-vented Blue-Bonnets: Genus: Scientific : Northiella ... English: Blue-Bonnets ... Dutch: Blauwkapparkieten ... German: Rotsteißsittichen ... French: Perruche à queue rouge
Species: Scientific:
Northiella haematogaster haematorrhous aka Psephotus
haematogaster haematorrhous ... English: Red-vented
Blue-Bonnet ... Dutch: Roodbuik Blue-Bonnet Parkiet
... German: Rotsteißsittich ... French: Perruche
à anus rouge
Description: As Blue-bonnet
Parrots (haematogaster) - above - but red to abdomen extends
to under tail-coverts; shoulder feathers and outer
lesser wing-coverts pale green; inner lesser and median
wing-coverts brownish-red. Female as male, but with
generally duller plumage; facial area duller blue;
red to abdomen, under tail-coverts and thighs less
extensive; head and bill on average smaller. Immatures
as adults, but with slightly duller plumage; less
red to abdomen, under tail-coverts and thighs; adult
plumage attained by 12 months. Length: 31 cm (12.25
ins)
CITES II - Endangered
Species Distribution: Southern Queensland and northern New South Wales
Related Websites: Lexicon
of Parrots (Please scroll down to no. 2 - click on link to view photo.)
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