Bourke's Parrot
英文名：Bourke's Parrot（学名：Neopsephotus bourkii），是鹦形目鹦鹉科的鸟类。18–22 厘米。雄鸟：柔褐色，具白色眼圈，翼羽具浅色羽缘；下体染深粉红色。额带和翼角中蓝色；胁、腰侧和尾下覆羽浅蓝色。雌鸟：色较暗淡；额无蓝色，翼上蓝色较少。幼鸟：似雌鸟；粉红色较少；成年和未成年雌鸟飞行时具浅色翼纹。成对、结群活动：安静地在地面和枝叶间取食。受惊时僵立不动或迅速蹿至附近树上（常为枯树），与树皮颜色相融。飞行时，注意浅蓝色翼下和胁部，尾具白色边缘。黄昏、黎明及完全黑暗中，鸟群快速穿过灌丛飞向水源，发出柔和的叫声，翅膀发出轻柔的呼啸声。
Bourke's Parrot
18-22 cm. Male: soft-brown with whitish eye-ring and pale fringes to wing feathers; underparts washed deep pink. Forehead band and bend of wing mid-blue; flanks, sides of rump and undertail-coverts pale blue. Female: duller; no blue on forehead, less on wing. Immature: like female; less pink; adult and imm. females show pale wingstripe in flight. Pairs, flocks: feeds quietly on ground and in foliage. When disturbed, freezes or darts quickly to nearby tree (often dead tree), matching colour of wood. In flight, note pale blue underwing and flanks, white edges to tail. At dusk, dawn, and in total darkness, flocks fly fast through scrub to water, uttering soft calls, wings whistling softly.
- Other name
- Night or Sundown Parrot.
- Similar Species
- Peaceful, Diamond Doves.
- Voice
- flight call, mellow 'chu-wee'; soft chirrupy twitter; shrill metallic alarm call.
- Habitat
- mulga, other acacia scrubs; native cypress; open eucalypt woodlands.
- Breeding
- Aug.-Dec.
- Nest
- decayed debris in low hollow of acacia, casuarina.
- Eggs
- 3-6; white, rounded.
- Range & Status
- widespread across s. interior, from about Blackall-Cunnamulla (Q) and Walgett-Hillston (NSW), to w. coast WA, between c. Moore R. and NW Cape; n. to Devil's Marbles (NT), s. to Port Augusta-Gt Victoria Desert. Moves further s. and e. in dry periods inland. Locally abundant; patchy, irregular. Nomadic.
