Parrots Species Found in Australia
Below is a listing of PARROTS found in Australia.
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Adelaide and Paler Adelaide Rosellas (Platycercus adelaidae & a. subadelaidae) - Range: Southern Australia from Gladstone north to southern Flinder
Aru Red-cheeked Parrots (Geoffroyus geoffroyi aruensis) - Range: Aru Islands in the province of Maluku in eastern Indonesia, southern New Guinea, Fergusson and Goodenough Islands in eastern Papuan Islands, and Queensland, Australia
Australian King Parrots aka Eastern King, Queensland King, King Lory, Scarlet Parrot, Green Parrot(Alisterus scapularis) - Range: Australia
Australian Ringneck (Barnardius zonarius) - Range: Mainland Australian states
Bare-eyed Cockatoo or Little Corella (Cacatua sanguineat) - Range: Eastern, North-western and Northern Australia
Black Cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus banksii banksii aka Psittacus magnificus / Calyptorhynchus magnificusz) - Range: Eastern Australia
Blue Bonnet or Yellow-vented Blue-bonnet Parrot (Northiella haematogaster haemetogaster or Psephotus haematogaster haematogaster)- Range: Western and southern New South Wales, north-western Victoria and south-eastern South Australia
Blue-winged Grass Parakeet or Blue-winged Parrot (Neophema chrysostoma) aka Blue-banded Parakeet or Blue-banded Grass-parakeet - Range: Tasmania; winter in Australia
Bourke's Parakeets (Neopsephotus Bourkii) - Range: Southwestern and Central Australia
Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) aka budgies or parakeets - Range: Interior Australia
Carnaby's Cockatoo or Short-billed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris) - Range: South-western Australia
Cockatiels (Nymphensittich / Nymphicus hollandicus ) - Range: Central Australia
Cloncurry Parrot (Platycercus barnardi macgillivrayi) - Range: Australia - North-western Queensland, adjacent eastern area Northern Territory
Coxen's Fig Parrot or Coxen's Double-eyed Fig-parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma coxeniis) - Range: Australia: from the Mary River (Gympie) in Queensland south to the Richmond River in New South Wales and west to the Bunya Mountains
Crimson Rosella (Platycercus elegans) - Range: East and southeast Australia (Southern Queensland to Victoria); New Zealand
Eastern Rosella (Platycercus eximius) - Range: Southeast Australia and Tasmania. It has also been introduced into New Zealand
Eclectus Parrot (Eclectus roratus) - Range: Solomon Islands, New Guinea, northeastern Australia and the Maluku Islands (Moluccas)
Elegant Parrots, Elegant Grass Parakeets or Elegant Neophemas (Neophema elegans) - Range: South-western and South-eastern Australia as well as Kangaroo Island
Fig-parrots - Range: New Guinea and Australia
Galah Cockatoos / Roseate Cockatoos - Range: Australia
Gang Gang Cockatoo - Range:Eastern coast of Australia
Glossy Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami) - Range: Australia
Golden-shouldered Parrot (Psephotus chrysopterygius) - Range: Southern Cape York Peninsula in Australia.
Grass Parakeets (Neophema)
Blue-winged Grass Parakeet or Blue-winged Parrot (Neophema chrysostoma) - Range: Native to Tasmania, where they breed in spring and summer, and southeast Australia, where many of them winter. The flock size ranges from pairs in breeding season to up to 2,000 birds just before autumn migration.
Orange-bellied Parrots - Range: Coastal areas of Tasmania. Overwinters along the coast of southeast Australia. Visits several offshore islands in Bass Strait. Formerly could be found near Sydney, New South Wales.
Scarlet-chested Parakeet - Range: Southern Australia from extreme southwest Queensland, western new South Wales and northwest Victoria to southeast Western Australia.
Turquoisine Parakeets - Range: Southern Australia from extreme southwest Queensland, western New South Wales and northwest Victoria to southeast Western Australia.
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Ground Parrots aka Eastern Ground Parrot, Swamp Parrot or Button-grass Parrot (Pezoporus wallicus wallicus) - Range: Australia
Hooded Parrot (Psephotus dissimilis) - Range: Australia - very north-eastern region of the Northern Territory
King Parakeet (Alisterus scapularis) - Range: Eastern coast of Australia
Mallee Ringnecks / also known as the Mallee Parrots - Native: South-eastern Australia
Mulga Parrot (Psephotus varius) aka Many-colored Parrot - Range: Interior of southern Australia
Musk Lorikeet (Glossopsitta concinna) - Range: South-central/eastern Australia
Night Parrot (Geopsittacus occidentalis) - Range: Endemic to Australia, but could possibly be extinct
Northern Rosella (Platycercus venustus), also known as Brown's Parakeet or Smutty Rosella - Range: Western, North-western and Northern Australia; adjacent islands
Orange-bellied Grass Parakeet (Neophema chrysogaster)- Range: Breeds in Tasmania and winters in coastal grasslands on southern mainland mainland coast of south-eastern South Australia and southern Victoria
Pale-headed Rosella (Platycercus adscitus palliceps) - Range: Australia, specifically Northern Queensland, South of Cairns and Mitchell River to Southern New South Wales
Leadbeater's Cockatoo aka White Black-billed Cockatoos (Cacatua leadbeateri leadbeateri aka Plyctolophus leadbeateri) - Range: Mid-western Australia
Little Lory (Glossopsitta pusilla) - Range: Eastern & south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania
Long-billed Corella (Cacatua tenuirostris) - Range: Australia, around western Victoria and southern New South Wales. Feral populations have also sprung up in Sydney and Perth from the release of unwanted birds. This has serious implications in Western Australia
Macleay's Fig-Parrot or Red-browed Fig-Parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma macleayana)- Range: from Cooktown to Paluma in north Queensland (first described by Ramsay in 1874)
Marshall's Fig-Parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma marshalli) - Range: from eastern Cape York Peninsula, North Queenlands
Night Parakeet Geopsittacus occidentalis) - Range: Interior and northern Australia
Northern Rosella (Platycercus venustus) - Range: Northern Territory, northwestern Australia, and adjacent islands
Paradise Parrot (Psephotus pulcherrimus) - Range: Was native to Queensland - New South Wales border area of Australia - extinct
Palm Cockatoos (Probosciger aterrimus aterrimus - Range: Aru Island, Misool Western Papuan Island (Maluku Province) in Western New Guinea, Northern Australia, Southern New Guinea, Cape York Peninsula
Port Lincoln Parakeet (Barnardius zonarius) - Range: Central and west Australia
Princess Parakeet (Polytelis alexandrae) - Range: Interior Australia
Purple-crowned Lorikeets - Range: Eastern Victoria to the south of Western Australia
Queensland Eclectus Parrots aka Australian Red-sided Eclectus (Eclectus roratus macgillivraryi) - Range: Cape York Peninsula of Australia
Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus) - Range: Eastern seaboard of Australia, ranging from Queensland to South Australia. Also found around northwest Tasmania
Red-capped Parrot or Parakeet (Purpureicephalus spurius) - Range: Southwestern Australia
Red-cheeked Parrot (Geoffroyus geoffroyi geoffroyi) - Range: Australia, Indonesia - specifically Timor (province East Nusa Tenggara) and Wetar Islands (province Maluku) in the Lesser Sunda Islands, and Papua New Guinea
Red-collared Lorikeet (Trichoglossus rubritorquis) - Range: Northern Australia
Red-rumped Parrot (Psephotus haematonotus) - Range: Common in south-eastern Australia
Red-winged Parrots (Aprosmictus erythropterus) aka red-shouldered parrots / parakeets, blood-winged and crimson-winged parrots / parakeets - Range: Southern New Guinea and northern and northeastern Australia, except along the east coast
Regent or Splendour Parakeet (Polytelis anthopeplus anthopeplus) - Range: Southeast Australia
Rock Parrots or Rock Grass Parakeets (Neophema petrophila) - Range: Southern Australia
Rosellas (Platycercus) - Range: Australia and some nearby islands
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus) - Range: North-eastern Australia
Starlet-chested Parakeet (Neophema splendida) - also known alternately as Scarlet-breasted parrot, Orange-throated parrot or Splendid parrot - Range: Western New South Wales to interior Western Australia
Short-billed Black Cockatoos aka Large Black Cockatoos or Carnaby's Black-Cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus latirostris) - Range: South-western Australia
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) - Range: East coast of Australia, extending along the northern coast and across the seas into Papua New Guinea
Yellow Rosella (Platycercus flaveolus) - Range: Southern New South Wales, northern Victoria, and eastern South Australia
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