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Red-capped Parrot № 83

Red-capped Parrot

Purpureicephalus spurius

A south-west specialist whose long bill is shaped to lever seed out of marri gumnuts, which almost nothing else can manage. Purple below, with a dark red cap.

Photo · pimelea · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Cropped and resized.

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

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