Red-cheeked Parrot
Geoffroyus geoffroyi
Compact, bulky medium-sized green parrot of wet forests in Cape York and lowlands of New Guinea. Male has rose-pink face, violet crown, reddish upper mandible, and pale eye. Female has brown head, pale eye, and dusky bill; juvenile greenish overall with dark eye and orange bill that turns gray. In flight, bright pale blue underwings contrast with green belly and pink face in male. Much larger than tiny Double-eyed Fig-Parrot. Calls include high-pitched squeaks (similar to Australian King-Parrot) and repeated incisive squeaks.
识别特征
Both the male and female red-cheeked parrot have predominantly bright green plumage and a stocky body with a short tail. The adult male has pink-tinged red cheeks and face with a blue-mauve back of head and crown, chestnut wing coverts, blue under wing, and a coral-pink upper mandible. The female has a brown head and more olive-brown cheeks and throat, and all brown-grey bill. Juveniles also have the olive tinge, but their heads are more green. All red-cheeked parrots have yellow eyes. Their beaks are designed for eating seeds and fruit. Their swift and direct flight pattern is distinct and similar to that of a starling. Their call is "metallic". Typical body dimensions are: height 250 mm (9.8 in), length 203 mm (8.0 in), and wing span 135 to 155 mm (5.3–6.1 in).
分类信息
The red-cheeked parrot was first described by the German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein, 1811. It is one of three species classified in the genus Geoffroyus. This genus has occasionally been merged into Psittinus. Proposed races sumbavensis and tjindanae are synonyms of floresianus; stresemanni of rhodops; explorator too may be synonymous with rhodops.<p>Seventeen subspecies of the red-cheeked parrot are now recognized.
- 学名
- Geoffroyus geoffroyi
- 命名信息
- (Bechstein, 1811)
- 目
- Psittaciformes
- 科
- Psittaculidae
- 属
- Geoffroyus
分布与栖息地
The red-cheeked parrot is found in Cape York Peninsula, Australia, Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea and several other islands in the region. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. They live along streams and in forests.
- 迁徙
- Resident species
行为
Migration pattern: Resident species.
保护状况
Population trend: declining.
- 种群趋势
- declining
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