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A slender and long-tailed parrot restricted to a relatively small range in the Northern Territory, where it inhabits open woodlands.
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Aggregated occurance data is sourced from 14 different actively-updating datasets including eBird Australia, iNaturalist Australia, BirdLife Australia, and multiple state-based bird surveys through Atlas of Living Australia.
Species notes
Female primarily pale green with turquoise underparts except for rosy undertail coverts. Slenderer and longer-tailed than Red-winged Parrot and Northern Rosella, with bright yellow shoulders obvious in flight. This species digs tunnels in termite mounds in order to breed.
Male a striking turquoise color with black cap, yellow wings, rosy undertail coverts, and olive back.
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