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Psittacula cyanocephala
Brilliant plum coloured head with black neck ring fringed in blue. Body has shades of green. Slender built. Elongated tail feathers add length to the body. Prominent red mark on the wings. Beak is orangish.
Spotted this flock (about 5-6 males and a couple of females) on a leafless Plumeria tree. My New Delhi office garden. Heart of thecity. For the female: https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/13... For the happy couple: https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/13...
These parakeets were flying to the Marigold hedge below (last picture) and neatly snapping a flower each. Then they flew to their perches and quitely ate the seeds...scattering the yellow petals on the green lawn. They made many such excursions...I watched for at least half an hour. Incidentally, my 1000th spotting. THANK YOU, PN.
Spotted on Feb 27, 2015
Submitted on Mar 2, 2015
14 Comments
Thank you, armadeus4...it is a beautiful bird indeed and I loved the show it put up for me> Happy to share it on PN...where everyone shares such wonderful spottings.
A beautiful bird indeed for your 1000th spotting! Congratulations and thank you for sharing :)
Ha, ha....does so indeed...but the males did not share anything...kept eating. There were 5-7 males and about 2 females...you'd think the females would be wooed a bit! AshleyT.
Congrats on 1000, awesome photos! Looks like he is ready to give the flower to a lady friend in the first photo :)
Sundor.
Thank you, Sunnyjosef. Thank you, James McNair. You are an inspiration...both of you!
Great achievement, look forward to your next 1000
Beautiful spotting Sukanya...and congrats on your 1000!!!
Congratulations on your achievement and on your wonderful collection!
Congratulations on your 1000th spotting Ms.Datta ! and a lovely one it is too - Parrots are the most amusing of birds I think. This one must have been interesting to watch but I am sure your gardener wouldn't have been too pleased.. :)
Thank, Nuwan. Glad you liked it. I was fascinated by their attack on the marigolds. It was fun to see them fly holding the flower in their beaks...often obstruction vision, I thought.
congrats!
Thanks, Hema. They were eating the black seeds and scattering the yellow petals all over the carefully manicured lawns...plundering the blooms. Thank God, the gardener was not around or he'd have had a fit ! :)
too cute. What are they trying to eat? I rember that as kids we ate the white bead inside.Congrats for 1000th spotting!Thanks for such a great collection!!