Possible King Parrot

[Harold Schranz <>]

Hi Folks

Thanks for the suggested IDs ... I suspect it is indeed a young (juvenile) King Parrot as the adult ones seem (to me) have a very clearly different shaped head ... like in the following photos of an adult King Parrot (http://bit.ly/1ov0iJX) some 50 metres or so away up a tall tree at dusk (limiting the photos a bit; apologies for the noise!).

Thanks
Harold

On 4 June 2014 19:39, Philip Veerman <> wrote:

Thanks for that. Sadly my computer crashes at every available chance (like opening photos) so I won't check the photo. The King Parrot is a very common species in Canberra, although not evenly distributed. I have them (usually between 4 & 8 birds) in my GBS area (if not my yard) almost every day during the cold months.

 

Philip

 

-----Original Message-----From: John Harris [ Sent: Wednesday, 4 June 2014 5:33 PM

To: Harold Schranz; Canberra Birds      Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Possible King Parrot

Not a silly question. We all have to learn and we all have much more to learn.

It is a female King Parrot. There’s one around here at the moment.

As to being young or not, Geoffrey Dabb or Philip Veerman may help you with that!

They know more than some of us about such finer points!

From: Harold Schranz <>      Date: Wednesday, 4 June 2014 5:11 pm      To: Canberra Birds <m("canberrabirds.org.au","canberrabirds");" target="_blank">>
Subject: [canberrabirds] Possible King Parrot

Hi Folks

As a newbie and after consulting considerable number of tomes and sources I am unsure of the following birds identity.

Photo Link: http://bit.ly/1ncqTvS

Is this a (possibly Juvenile) King Parrot? Or is it some kind of Rosella? Found foraging in a tree on Black Mountain Peninsula in late April 2014.

Silly question I know. But its one of the 50-odd (or not so odd) birds I've photographed since late last year that I haven't been sure of.

Harold