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Hooded Parrot № 117

Hooded Parrot

Psephotellus dissimilis

The male is turquoise with a black cap and a gold shoulder, and the pair nest in a tunnel dug into a termite mound. A moth lays its eggs in there too, and its caterpillars keep the place clean.

Photo · Thomas Mesaglio · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Cropped and resized.

Call · James Lambert · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · source · xeno-canto. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.

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