Eclectus Male Parrot Taxidermy cairns butterfly ISBN: 978-2-08-020376-2

ISBN: 978-2-08-020376-2

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is a colourful passerine bird which is native to Australia

Eclectus Male Parrot Taxidermy cairns butterfly ISBN: 978-2-08-020376-2The eclectus parrot (Eclectus roratus) is a parrot native to the Solomon Islands, Sumba, New Guinea and nearby islands, northeastern Australia, and the Maluku Islands(Moluccas). It is unusual in the parrot family for its extreme sexual dimorphism of the colours of the plumage; the male having a mostly bright emerald green plumage and the female a mostly bright red and purple blue plumage. Joseph Forshaw, in his book Parrots of the World, noted that