Crimson Rosella Bird Eating, Australia, Red Notebook

This cutee notebook features a cute close-up photo of a red Crimson Rosella eating an afternoon snack. The photo was taken in Wilsons Promontory National Park in Victoria, Australia. Taking notes, doing homework, making a list, start planning, or doing some drawing was never so much fun with this amazing notebook. You can customize / change the text to your liking! Don't forget to chose the type of paper you want on the inside. The Crimson Rosella (Platycercus elegans elegans) has blue cheek patch, shoulders and tail. Crimson body and head, white beak. Back is crimson with black scalloping. Females similar to males with white underwing bar. Juveniles/immature have blue cheek patches with olive green back and green tail; under side is green with crimson scalloping and crimson breast. In some places juvenile Crimson Rosellas are known locally as Green Rosellas. Grows to 32 to 37 centimeters. Subspecies elegans is found in south-east Queensland, coastal New South Wales and much of Victoria while subspecies nigrescens lives along the coast of central Queensland. Crimson Rosellas are mainly seed and fruit eaters. They forage on the ground and in the outer foliage of trees, picking up seed ready to eat or breaking into fruit holding it in the left foot. Early in the morning they fly out to drink and feed in shrubs and trees or on the ground. When on the ground in sunlight they keep to shaded patches. Eucalyptus seeds are a diet staple but they take a wide range of grains from weeds, grasses and shrubs. They harvest lerps from leaves and have raided eucalyptus flowers for nectar. Crimson rosellas are often regarded as pests by orchardists and householders. Lives in humid forests of the east coast and Victoria, in rainforests, tall, dense, wet eucalypt forests, along timbered watercourses and farmland near forests. Flies rapidly twisting and turning between tree trunks and limbs. Abundant in forests and in suburbs of cities They rest quietly in tree tops during the middle of the day, occasionally nibbling on leaves and socializing in small chattering groups. They feed again in the late afternoon then fly to their roosts. This is a gregarious bird; adults gather in groups of five or six while immature birds (more green than the red of adults) gather, sometimes with a few adults, into wandering groups of up to 30 birds. Immature bands break up at the beginning of the breeding season as birds adopt adult plumage and pair up. There is no feeding territory. Adults gather in small social groups in and out of breeding season and engage in chattering and tail displays. Pairing seem to be permanent, even within small social groups of adults. Male and female do not preen each other but the male does feed the female during courtship and while she is incubating and brooding the young.