Olive-shouldered Parrot Aprosmictus jonquillaceus Scientific name definitions

35 cm. Similar to female A. erythropterus but brighter, more yellowish green on head and body, darker mantle and upper back with blue margins, bend of wing blue, inner median and lesser wing-coverts yellow. Female lacks blue on mantle and back, and blue, red and yellow on wing. Immature like female but without yellow in wing. Race wetterensis smaller, with little yellow and less red in the wing.

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Primary and secondary monsoon forest, savanna woodland, lightly wooded cultivation, and scrubby secondary growth, up to 2200 m.

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Commonest vocalization a diagnostic disyllabic shrill “chee-ik”. When perched also more raucous calls.

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Not globally threatened. CITES II. Currently considered Near Tthreatened. A BirdLife “restricted-range” species. Fairly common, although habitat destruction has somewhat restricted its range. Small numbers present on Wetar, 1989 and 2008–2009 (1 Trainor, C. R., Imanuddin, F. Aldy, P. Verbelen, and J. S. Walker (2009). The birds of Wetar, Banda Sea: one of Indonesia’s forgotten islands. BirdingASIA 12:78–93. Close ). Trade levels were not excessive in 1980s, but in 1990s zero quotas, recommended while uncertainty exists over total population size, have been flouted.