English name: Parrot
The Great Scarlet-breasted Parrot is a medium-sized bird with a body length of 26-36 cm. It is a typical climbing parrot. birds. There are 8 subspecies of Great Scarlet-breasted Parrot, mainly distributed in Indochina Peninsula countries to central Malaysia, including northern India, Nepal, Myanmar, Guangxi, Guangdong and Hainan Island in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, southern Borneo and Indonesia. Java Islands.
Chinese name: Scarlet-breasted parrot
Latin name: Psittacula alexandri
Aliases : Parrot
Kingdom: Animalia
Door: Chordate
Class: BirdsOrder: Parrotidae
Family: Parrotidae
Genus: Parrots
Species: Scarlet-breasted Parrots
Named and Year: Linnaeus, 1758
English name: Red-breasted Parakeet
The male scarlet-breasted parrot has a black band on the forehead that extends back along the sides to the eyes. There is a black broad-banded spot on each side of the base of the lower mouth, extending backward and obliquely to the side of the neck, the eyes first and around the eyes are stained with green, and the rest of the head is purple-gray. The back of the neck and the sides of the neck are glowing green, the back, shoulders, inner coverts and inner flight feathers are bronze, with metallic green luster, and the feather ends have dark beetle-like spots. The outer middle and large coverts are golden green, and the feather tip also has dark beetle-like spots. The first flight feather is dark brown with a khaki narrow edge, the rest of the flight feathers are dry black brown, the outer and feather tips are green and have a golden yellow narrow edge, the inner dark brown and the edge is khaki. The tail feathers are narrow and pointed. The two central tail feathers are particularly narrow and blue, the base feathers are green, and the tail feathers on both sides are shorter as they go to the outside. Chin stained white, throat and chest red with purple-grey. The rest of the lower body and underwing coverts are green, and the belly feathers are stained with purple-blue.
The head of the female is blue-gray, the throat and breast are orange-red, lacking purplish-gray contamination, and the central tail feathers are generally shorter than those of the males. The young bird's head is grape-brown, with a purple-grey forehead, and gradually turns green below the top of the head. The underparts turn green, the throat and breast are slightly tinged with purple, and the central tail feathers are short.
The iris is yellow (♂) or yellow-white (♀). The upper beak of the male bird is mostly coral red, and the apex is ivory. Female beak dark brown, feet dark yellow green or slate yellow.
Size measurement: body weight ♂110～168g, ♀85～160g; body length ♂263～362mm, ♀220～338mm; mouth peak ♂23～27mm, ♀21～26mm; wings ♂142～167mm , ♀141～163mm; tail ♂98～220mm, ♀92～192mm; tarsal ♂13～21mm, ♀13～21mm. (Note: ♂male;♀female)
There are often more than ten to dozens of them in groups Active, good at climbing, and able to use both mouth and feet to climb, both up and down are very dexterous. Fly fast and often in a straight line. Usually they will form groups of about 10 to 50 roaming activities. Most of them are seen flying low in the woods or heading to rural areas. When they reach their destination, they will perch on tall branches. It is quite noisy when flying. It is very quiet only when foraging; it has the habit of migration, and the location of migration is completely determined by the availability of food. Occasionally, it will gather with grey-headed parrots in the same genus to go to the rice fields for food, and they fly faster than all the other species in the same genus. The parrots are slow, loud and loud, like a 'gah-gah-' sound, very noisy. Sometimes they live in groups with crows and starlings. Perched on trees at night. It is docile in nature, easy to raise, and can imitate human language after training. At night, it often mixes with myna and crows in the trees. Food is mainly berries, nuts and other fruits of wild plants, as well as seeds, nectar, twigs and young shoots, etc., also eat grains and insects.
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