Long-tailed Parakeet

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When to see the Long-tailed Parakeet

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

Where to see the Long-tailed Parakeet

The map shades 5 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Long-tailed Parakeet

The long-tailed parakeet or Burung Bayan Nuri in Malay is a parakeet endemic to the regions of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sumatra, Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia. It is allopatric with the congener, the Red-breasted parakeet, Psittacula alexandri, except in the Andaman Islands where they occur together.

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Easily confused with

Slaty-headed ParakeetPsittacula himalayanaAdults of both sexes have green (tinted with blue) feathers on most of their body. Blossom-headed ParakeetPsittacula roseataP. roseata is a lime-green parrot, 30 cm (12 in) long with a tail up to 18 cm (7.1 in). Layard's ParakeetPsittacula calthrapaeLayard's parakeet is a green parrot, 29 cm (11 in) long including a tail up to 13 cm (5.1 in).

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