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Little Lorikeet

Parvipsitta pusilla

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernEndemicNectarForest39 g
Little Lorikeet (Parvipsitta pusilla), photo 1
Photo: Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand · CC0

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Measuring 15 cm (5.9 in) in length, the male and female are similarly coloured, although the latter is a little duller. The crown, lores and throat are red, the nape and shoulder bronze-coloured and the remainder of the plumage green. The belly is paler and yellow-green. In adults, the bill is black and the iris golden in colour. Immature individuals have a paler orange face and a brown iris and bill.

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When to see the Little Lorikeet

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Little Lorikeet

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Australia

About the Little Lorikeet

The little lorikeet is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae. It is endemic to Australia. It is a small parrot, predominantly green in plumage with a red face. Its natural habitats are temperate eucalyptus forest and woodland, subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.

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Easily confused with

Purple-crowned Lorikeet (Parvipsitta porphyrocephala) Purple-crowned LorikeetParvipsitta porphyrocephalaMeasuring around 15 cm (6 in) long, the male purple-crowned lorikeet is a small lorikeet with a dark purple crown, a yellow-orange forehead and ear-coverts, deepening to orange lores, and green upperparts, tinted bronze on the mantle and nape.

Side by side: Little Lorikeet vs Varied Lorikeet · Little Lorikeet vs Purple-crowned Lorikeet

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