Scarlet-chested Parrot
Gloss Parakeet ( Neophema splendida )
The gloss Parakeet ( Neophema splendida ) is an Australian parrot from the family of the actual parrot. Of all the grass parakeets parakeet the gloss has the most far-reaching in Australian inland area of distribution.
Exterior Features
Gloss parakeets are about 20 cm long and about 35 to 45 g in weight, the females are much lighter than the males.
In the male in wild coloring top, the apex and the tail feathers of the forehead and the upper wing-coverts bright blue, throat and upper breast, and scarlet belly and underside of tail are green, bright yellow. The bill is blackish, the cere brown complexion, eye ring gray, the iris brown and the legs dark gray.
The female is similarly colored to the male. However, the coloring seems overall somewhat paler. They also have a yellow breast and whitish underwing stripe.
Dissemination
Gloss parakeets live in the dry, desert-like areas in the southern inland of Australia where they inhabit shrubby acacia and eucalyptus stands. They are closely tied to its distribution to arid Mallees. They prefer doing the regions which have only a sparse ground cover.
Gloss parakeets are quite rare in the wild and have even been declared extinct, but rediscovered in 1931.
Attitude in captivity
Because of their colors shine parakeets are now cared for hundreds of thousands in captivity. Most of the retained gloss parakeets descend from a few hundred individuals who were caught before 1939 in Australia. Who specializes in Australian parrots ornithologist Joseph M. Forshaw referred to the high number today kept in captivity gloss parakeets an impressive testament to the high rate of reproduction that have these animals under suitable conditions. As residents of arid habitats they proceed to breed them once suitable conditions are provided. They often breed therefore two or three times per year.
There are now many mutation colors in gloss parakeet. The color scale varies from a dark color to zimtfarbig ( the green plumage colors have here a brown trace ). Also Lutinos or albinos are observed.