Lord Derby's Parakeet

How to identify

Field marks

1. Head and breast purplish-blue-gray
2. Black moustachial stripe
3. Eyes pale yellow, legs and feet gray

Male, female and young

Males have a red upper mandible and black lower mandible; females have an entirely black bill; juveniles have a green crown and orange-red bill.

Voice

High-pitched and sharp, like whistling.

Where and when it's recorded

No records at the public birding hotspots we track. It may be rare, remote, or its locations protected.

About

Lord Derby's parakeet (Psittacula derbiana), also known as Derbyan parakeet, is a parrot species, which is confined to a small pocket of moist evergreen forest in the hills and mountains of the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, and adjoining parts of Tibet, Sichuan and Yunnan in China. The species suffers from cutting of old trees (important for nesting sites) and poaching for the illegal wildlife trade. In 2011, its status was updated from least concern to near threatened on the IUCN Red List.

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