About the Blue-winged Parakeet
The blue-winged parakeet, also known as the Malabar parakeet, is a species of parakeet endemic to the Western Ghats of southern India. Found in small flocks, they fly rapidly in forest clearings while making screeching calls that differ from those of other parakeet species within their distribution range. Their long blue tails tipped in yellow and the dark wings with blue contrast with the dull grey of their head and body. Adult males and females can be easily told apart from the colour of their beak.
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The blue-winged parakeet is bluish grey with a long yellow-tipped tail. The black neck ring is complete in both males and females. The male has a bluish-green lower edge to the black collar and the upper mandible is red with a white tip while the female has an all black bill and has only the black collar. The female looks similar to the female of the plum-headed parakeet which however can be told apart by its broad yellow collar. Flocks move through the forest while calling out in a series of screeching keek-keek-keek calls.
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What the Blue-winged Parakeet sounds like
Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in February · a resident species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Red-breasted ParakeetPsittacula alexandriThe red-breasted parakeet is a parrot native to Southeast Asia.
Long-tailed ParakeetPsittacula longicaudaIt is mainly green with a long blue tail.
Slaty-headed ParakeetPsittacula himalayanaAdults of both sexes have green (tinted with blue) feathers on most of their body.
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