Male Eclectus Parrot - a photo on Flickriver

            This beautiful bird is the male Eclectus Parrot, another Australian native parrot, of tropical Queensland.

This is a delightful bird - a star attraction of the Free Flight Parrot show at Healesville Sanctuary.

These pictures are at full camera zoom, hand held, in drizzling rain, under dark skies, so they came out extremely well, all things considered!

Impossibly beautiful Australian native tropical parrots! The colours are absolutely stunning! 

The eclectus parrot is most unusual for having such differential colour schemes between male and female.

Eclectus Parrots are boldly colored birds.  
The male is bright green with blue and red patches,
and the female is crimson with a blue belly. Their feet are very unusual; 
the two outer toes of the foot point backward and the two inner toes point forward.  
This gives the parrot an extremely powerful grasp so it can manipulate objects close to its bill. 
These birds are tree dwellers and live around lowland in tropical areas.

E lectus Parrots are strong fliers and fly high above the forest canopy. 

Body length: (beak to tail) Males: 420–480mm; Females: 400–450mm
Wing span: Males: 900mm; Females: 890mm
Weight: 615g

Habitat and distribution: Eclectus roratus macgillivrayi is endemic to Queensland (only lives in Queensland) and is the only subspecies on mainland Australia, with one other subspecies, E. r. polychloros, found in the Torres Strait islands. All other subspecies are located in Indonesia, New Guinea, and several Pacific islands. The eclectus parrot is found in one region in Queensland, the Iron and McIlwraith ranges of eastern Cape York Peninsula. They mainly inhabit the interior and edges of lowland rainforest; however they can also be found in the higher rainforest regions.

Diet: The diet consists of fruit, nuts, seeds, flowers and nectar, obtained from the tree canopy.

Healesville Sanctuary, part of  Melbourne Zoo, Healesville, Victoria, Australia

Taken on: November 10, 2007

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Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ7, f/4.0, 1/100 sec, 72mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.01 sec (1/100)
Focal Length:	72mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	-0.33 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
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