Rosellas
Platycercus
Rosellas are in a genus that consists of six species and nineteen subspecies. These colourful parrots from Australia are in the genus Platycercus. Platycercus means "broad-tailed" or "flat-tailed", reflecting a feature common to the rosellas and other members of the broad-tailed parrot tribe. Their diet is mainly seeds and fruit.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 6 known species
Crimson Rosella
speciesPlatycercus elegans
Eastern Rosella
speciesPlatycercus eximius
Pale-headed Rosella
speciesPlatycercus adscitus
Green Rosella
speciesPlatycercus caledonicus
Western Rosella
speciesPlatycercus icterotis
Northern Rosella
speciesPlatycercus venustus
Eastern × Pale-headed Rosella
hybridPlatycercus eximius × adscitus
Crimson × Eastern Rosella
hybridPlatycercus elegans × eximius
Green × Eastern Rosella
hybridPlatycercus caledonicus × eximius
Crimson × Pale-headed Rosella
hybridPlatycercus elegans × adscitus
Platycercus caledonicus × elegans
hybridPlatycercus caledonicus × elegans
Where it lives
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 18914.