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WoodlandMedium · 161 g
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Adults of both sexes have green (tinted with blue) feathers on most of their body. It has a dark grey (slate colored) head with a light blue tint where head meets the neck. Males feature dark maroon patches on inner wing coverts. Females do not feature these maroon patches. Males have long central tail feathers which are shorter in female birds. The tail is green at base and becomes deep blue and widely tipped with bright yellow. The parakeet features a bright red-orange upper mandible with a pale yellow lower. It also has a pale yellow eye.
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When to see the Slaty-headed Parakeet
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Slaty-headed Parakeet
The map shades 4 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Australia.
About the Slaty-headed Parakeet
The slaty-headed parakeet is the only psittacid species to exhibit altitudinal migration. The species' range extends from Pakistan, to Western Himalayas in India through Nepal and Bhutan and up to the Eastern Himalayas in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. They descend to the valleys in winter, approximately during the last week of October.
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Easily confused with
Long-tailed ParakeetPsittacula longicaudaIt is mainly green with a long blue tail.
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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