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free encyclopedia [Photo] Eclectus Parrot, Eclectus roratus,
(male). Taken at the Melbourne Zoo. Taken by Fir0002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fir0002 The Eclectus Parrot,
Eclectus roratus is a parrot native to the Solomon Islands, New
Guinea, northeastern Australia and the Maluku Islands
(Moluccas). It is unusual in the parrot family for its extreme
sexual dimorphism. The males of the species are bright green,
having bright candy corn coloured upper mandibles and black
lower mandibles, and blue or red tail and wing feathers; while
the females are red headed and blue to purple breasted, with
black beaks. Joseph Forshaw, in his book Parrots of the World,
noted that the first European ornithologists to see Eclectus
parrots thought they were of two distinct species. Large
populations of this parrot exist in Papua New Guinea, where they
are sometimes considered as pests for eating fruit off trees.
Their bright feathers are also used by native trib