DOUBLE-EYED FIG PARROT

Photo: C & D Frith
Australian Tropical Birds

DOUBLE-EYED FIG PARROT
Psittaculirostris diophthalma 13-15 cm

·      The Double-eyed Fig Parrot is Australia's smallest parrot.

·      It is found in three distinct populations down the east coast of Australia from Cape
        York Peninsula to northern New South Wales.

·      Both sexes have a red forehead, but the males also have a red cheek patch, as
        opposed to the females' which is usually yellow. 

·      Their eggs are laid in holes in dead, sometimes perilously shaky, trees.

·      Unlike many larger parrots, fig parrots feed very quietly on the kernels of many tiny
        seeds, including those of figs, buttonwood and ironwood. 

·      Seen ideally three or four times each year around the weeping native fig trees at
        Lake Eacham and near Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodges , which set fruit and
        attract these parrots. 

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