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.