Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Plum-headed Parakeet

Psittacula cyanocephala

Description:

Male - yellowish-green plumage; plum-red head washed purplish-blue on hind crown; black chin strap; black and bluish-green collar; maroon-red wing shoulder patch; blue-green with white tip tail; yellow-orangish bill Female - dull, greyhead and yellow collar; maroon shoulder patch is missing Photo taken at Sattal, Uttarakhand, India

Habitat:

Forest; orchards; cultivation in forested areas

Notes:

Info taken from: Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh By – Bikram Grewal, Sumit Sen, Sarwandeep Singh, Nikhil Devasar and Garima Bhatia

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

No Comments

Karan Raghwa
Spotted by
Karan Raghwa

Sukha, Uttarakhand, India

Spotted on Mar 28, 2021
Submitted on May 13, 2021

Related Spottings

Psittacula krameri halsbandparkiet (Psittacula krameri) Alexandrine parakeet plum-headed parakeet

Nearby Spottings

Spotting Rufous Chinned Laughing Thrush Red Billed Leothrix Blue throated fly catcher
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team