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General Information
 Description:
Rosellas are medium sized, broad tailed parrots. The Pale Headed Rosella is
a gentle and colourful Rosella with white or pale yellow head and blue
cheek-patch. They often visiting urban areas like our school and backyards
of houses in Rochedale. Sometimes their colours may vary. The birds grow to
about 30cm. Females are slightly duller in coloration and the males' head
shape is usually broader and larger in shape, and it is also a much brighter
yellow in colour on its back than females. Young birds usually display their
adult plumage at around 12 to 15 months. At this time young males will
become brighter, and their head and beak will be larger and broader than
females.
Voice: Pale Headed
Rosellas make several different calls, one is a bell-like "tink" which is
sometimes mistaken for the call of a Bell Miner.
When in flocks a quarrelsome chattering is
often heard. They are noisy
around dawn and dusk, flying short distances from tree to tree.
Habitat:
Pale Headed Rosellas live in pairs or flocks, and inhabit the more open
forests as well as straying into urban areas. It is found in North-Eastern
Queensland from Cape York Peninsula south to the Mitchell River and Atherton
tablelands. Northernmost records of the birds are Weipa and Wenlock.
Pale-headed Rosellas are prefer to remain in the one area, moving
territory only when extremes of climate mean they have to move on.
Food: Pale
Headed Rosellas eat seeds and berries. They feed in the early morning and
evening and may be missed whilst feeding on the ground, so good is their
camouflage.
Breeding:
The Pale Headed Rosella makes a nest in a tree hollow of a limb or trunk of
a tree ranging from a few metres to thirty metres off the ground. Sometimes
they use an old fence post. The breeding season is form August to December
and varies with the rains in some of the areas where it lives. They lay
three to six eggs only once a year. The Pale Headed Rosella is capable of
breeding with other Rosellas.
Reference:
Some information - Cooloola Birds
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