Photo: Prioniturus Platurus
Kingdom: Animals
Type: chordal
Class: Birds
Squad: parrot
Family: Parrot
Subvenuation: Real parrots
Rod: rocket -high parrots
Body length 28 cm, wing — 16.6—18.7 cm. The main coloring of the green plumage. Throat, chest and stomach yellowish-green. There is a pink-red spot on the crown, bordering the gray-blue area. The back is blue-gray, some birds have green interspersed. An orange-yellow strip runs along the top of the back. Covering feathers of the wings dull gray, shells and subsidiary greenish-blue. Green tail feathers with black and blue tips, two medium-sized tails elongated with endings in the form of black-green green «rockets». The near-eyed ring is narrow, light gray. The beak of a light-sneaken-river color with a black-handed tip. The iris is dark brown. The legs are light gray. First described by Louis Jean Pierre Vyoio in 1818.
Endemic Indonesia.
Inhabit subtropical and wet tropical forests.
Other types of genus «Rocket -high parrots»:
- Burui missile parrot
- Mountain rocket -high parrot
- Red -shaped rocket launcher
- Green missile parrot
- Blue -headed missile parrot
- Sineshapa rocket -high parrot
