Translations:AY Honors/Parrots and Cockatoos/Answer Key/60/en
From Pathfinder Wiki
File:Eclectus Parrot02 - melbourne zoo.jpg
Male Eclectus Parrot
File:Eclectus roratus -female side2.jpg
Female Ecletus Parrot
The Eclectus Parrot, Eclectus roratus, is a parrot native to the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, northeastern Australia and the Maluku Islands (Moluccas). It is unusual in the parrot family the males and females are so different from one another. The males of the species are bright green, having bright candy-corn-colored upper mandibles and black lower mandibles, and blue or red tail and wing feathers; while the females have red heads and blue to purple breasts, with black beaks. Joseph Forshaw, in his book Parrots of the World, noted that the first European ornithologists to see Eclectus Parrots thought they were of two distinct species.
