Vik's Gallery:   Blue-winged Parrot (2/4)

PSITTACIFORMES: Psittacidae

Neophema chrysostoma  

Sometimes you just get lucky. You're sitting quietly in the bush and a little green head pops up in the grass of the nearby gully.

The Blue-winged Parrot is one of the six similar Australian Neophema parrots. Birds Australia has produced a very useful pamphlet identifying their distinguishing features.