#MUTATION RED RUMPED PARROT SKIN#

The bill is blue-grey and the iris is brown. Its crown is yellowish, and throat and breast pale green and belly yellow, its wing coverts and under wing coverts are deep blue. The adult male has a two-toned band across the face above but not reaching the eyes-ultramarine above and paler turquoise blue below. Ranging from 20 to 24 cm long and weighing around 55 g, the parrot is sexually dimorphic-both sexes are predominantly olive-green. Analysis of mitochondrial DNA published in 2021 indicated it is most closely related to the rock parrot, their ancestors most likely diverging between 0.7 and 3.3 million years ago their common ancestor diverged from the ancestor of the elegant parrot between 0.9 and 3.4 million years ago. Within the genus, the blue-winged parrot is classified in the subgenus Neonanodes. It is also called blue-winged grass parrot or blue winged grass parakeet, as well as its official name of blue-winged parrot. It was also known as the Hobart ground parrot in Tasmania from its terrestrial habits. However this plumage is shared by two other members of the genus. Įarly names included the blue-banded parakeet or blue-banded grass parakeet, taken from the species' blue frontal band.

Gregory Mathews described two subspecies but neither is recognised as distinct today. In 1821, Coenraad Jacob Temminck gave the species the name Psittacus venustus, however Kuhl had used this binomial name for the parrot now known as the northern rosella ( Platycercus venustus).

#MUTATION RED RUMPED PARROT SKIN#

The species' name is from the Ancient Greek words khrysos 'golden' and stoma 'mouth', from the yellow skin around the eyes. However, the material used to describe it contained specimens of both this species and the elegant parrot. German naturalist Heinrich Kuhl described the blue-winged parrot in 1820 as Psittacus chrysostomus, noting that it had been confused with the turquoise parrot ( N.

Mutation red rumped parrot