Long-tailed Parakeets, the parrot of open country and cultivation you
get in the Malay Peninsula and, I think, Sumatra and Java, has a
rosy-pink face. But are they kept in captivity?
John Leonard
2008/9/28 Mike Owen <>:
> wrote:
>>
>> I was driving southwest along the Boulevard in Yarra Bend Park this
>> morning at about
>> 8.20 a.m., and just past the bridge over the Freeway, I saw two parrots
>> flying. Long-tailed, predominantly strong green (like Rainbow Lorikeet) on
>> back and wings, but
>> nearer bird had a PINK face (forehead and chin) and a creamy yellow patch
>> on the side of
>> the throat - maybe right across throat but my glimpse was in profile..
>> Second bird
>> didn't really register.
>>
>>
>> I have been through Forshaw and Cooper's "Parrots of the World" and I can
>> find nothing
>> which fits my memory 'snapshot'. Perhaps one of the 'Indian Ringneck'
>> Psittacula group?
>> Suggestions welcomed.
>>
>>
>
> Indian ringnecks never get a pink face, just a very narrow pink ring around
> the neck so that seems to eliminate them from consideration. I don't have
> any alternative though.
> cheers,
>
> Mike Owen
> Sunshine Coast
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