Blue-Winged Parrot
Neophema chrysostoma
Family Psittacidae
About
The blue-winged parrot, also known as the blue-banded parakeet or blue-banded grass-parakeet, is a small parrot found in Tasmania and southeast mainland Australia. It is partly migratory, with populations of blue-winged parrots travelling to Tasmania for the summer. The parrot is sexually dimorphic – the males have more blue on the wings and a two-toned blue frontal band on the head, while females are duller and have more green on the wings and a wingbar. Both sexes have predominantly olive-green plumage. Predominantly a feeder on the ground, the blue-winged parrot mainly eats seeds of grasses. It adapts readily to captivity.
How to spot it
Real occurrence confirmed near Deep Creek National Park (Atlas of Living Australia, 2019) — no separate physical description was available on Wikipedia for this species, see the source link for more.
Documented on these trails
Found in
- Deep Creek National Park — Adelaide, the Hills & Fleurieu Peninsula hikes