Musk Lorikeet

(Glossopsitta concinna)

Live:Eastern and South Eastern Australia, Tasmania and Kangaroo Island. Occur at lower altitudes in open areas bordering watercourses or farmland.

Habitat: Found wherever there are flowering or fruiting trees. Travel widely following the flowering of trees such as the silky oak.

Diet:In the wild: Seeds, fruits, nectar, pollen, berries and insects.
Can be a pest of maize crops and orchards.
Zoo diet: Lorikeet dry mix, seed mix, fruit, vegetables and browse. Enclosure cleaned weekly.

Breeding: August - January.
Nest: usually in a hollow limb or tree in a eucalypt tree high off the ground.
Eggs: 2, incubated by the female for 21- 28 days. At night both the birds roost in the nest.

General:Size to 22cm.
Adults: General plumage green, under parts lighter. Red forehead with blue crown. Yellow patches on breast.
Yellow-green underwing. Green tail, with orange-red markings.
Black beak, tipped with orange. Orange eyes.Green-brown legs.
Females: Crown duller and less extensive than male.
Juveniles: Duller than adults, black-brown beak.

Call: Noisy screeching when feeding.

Habits: Although well camouflaged by their plumage, their noisy screeching during feeding betrays their presence.
Flight is swift with audible wing-beats. They travel in flocks.

Chicks: Young birds leave the nest approx 45-50 days after hatching.Content goes here