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Turquoisine Grass
Parakeet * Turquoise
Parrot
DESCRIPTION
About 8 inches long the
Turquoisine Grass Parrot
has a blue head and wings
red wing bars, green upper
parts and bright yellow under parts. The female Turquoisine
Grass Parrot is not so brightly coloured as the males and have no
wing bars
HABITAT
Is the forested eastern areas of Australia ( S.E. Queensland - N.
Central Victoria) where the rainfall is high. The Turquoisine
Grass Parrot favours the edges of woodlands beside open grass
pastures. These "woodlands" maybe a timbered ridges or tree
lined creeks. Due to loss of Habitat and subsequent numbers the
Turquoisine Grass Parrot is fully protected by law in Australia,
though it is not classified as being close to extinction
BEHAVOIUR
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Ants (Green Tree Ant).... Bandicoot (Long Nosed)....
Bilby.... Bogong Moth.... Bottlenose Dolphin.... Bridled
Nailtail Wallaby.... Brolga.... Cassowary.... Crocodile (Salt
Water).... Cuscus.. Cuttlefish.. Dingo..... Dugong.... Ea
stern Snake Necked Turtle.... Echidna.... Emu.... Flying
Fox (Grey-Headed).... Frilled Necked Lizard.... Furseal
(Australian).... Galah.... Goanna.... Great White Shark....
Kingfishers & Kookaburras.... Koala.... Kowari....
Leadbeater's Possum.... Lumholtz Tree Kangaroo....
Lyrebird.... Magpie.... Mallee Fowl.... Numbat....
Owls.... Oystercatcher Parrot.... Pelican (Australian)....
Penguin (Little or Fairy).... Phascogale.... Platypus....
Pygmy Possum.... Quokka.... Quoll (Spotted Tailed)....
Rainbow Lorikeet.... Red Kangaroo.... Sawfish.... Sea
Eagle (White Bellied).... Seadragons.... Seastars & Crown of
Thorns.... Southern Right Whale.... Sugar Glider....
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo.... Tasmanian Devil.. Tasmanian
Pademelon.... Thorny Devil.... Thylacine (Tasmanian
Tiger).... Tree Frog (Blue Mountains).... Western Swamp
Tortoise.... Wallaroo.... Wombats x 3.... Yabby....