Red-collared Lorikeet
OccasionalGBIF 20.6·Dongniao Rarity Index9.01
英文名：Red-collared Lorikeet（学名：Trichoglossus rubritorquis），是鹦形目鹦鹉科的鸟类。25–32 厘米。与彩虹吸蜜鹦鹉相似，头部具蓝色纵纹，背绿色，嘴红色，但后颈橙红色，腹黑色，胸橙黄色。未成年鸟：较暗淡；嘴黑色。成对至成群：在桉树、班克木、白千层等的枝叶和花丛中嘈杂取食；在花园中吸食花蜜。会袭击花园中的成熟果实、枇杷、梨等。聚集成嘈杂的夜栖群。飞行时显得快速、深色而绚丽，翅后掠，尾长而尖：注意翼下衬红色，翼下具黄色横斑。
Red-collared Lorikeet
25-32 cm. Similar to Rainbow Lorikeet with streaky blue head, green back and red bill, but has nape orange-red, belly black, and breast orange-yellow. Immature: duller; bill blackish. Pairs to flocks: feeds noisily in foliage and blossoms of eucalypts, banksias, paperbarks, etc.; nectar-feeders in gardens. Raids ripe garden fruit, loquats, pears, etc. Gathers in noisy roosts. In flight looks fast, dark and colourful with swept wings and long, pointed tail: note red wing lining and yellow underwing-bar.
- Other name
- Rainbow Lorikeet.
- Similar Species
- Rainbow Lorikeet.
- Voice
- rolling musical screech, deeper than Musk Lorikeet; harsher screeches; raucous chatterings.
- Habitat
- eucalypt forests, woodlands, paperbark woodlands, coastal scrubs, mangroves, plantations, gardens, street trees.
- Breeding
- Mar.-Jan.
- Nest
- on decayed debris; in tree-hollow, often high.
- Eggs
- 2-3; white, oval.
- Range & Status
- coastal n. Aust., from Kimberley (WA) to w. C. York Pen. (Q). Common to abundant.
