Parrots
Ornate Lorikeet
Trichoglossus ornatus
The Ornate Lorikeet (Trichoglossus ornatus) is a 120 g forest bird that eats mostly nectar. It stays put all year.
- Family
- Parrots
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Weight
- 120 g
- Habitat
- Forest
- Diet
- Fruit and nectar
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 7
Recorded in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Is., ZZ, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, United States.
Where to see it: Tangkoko Batuangus NR · Forest and General Area (Indonesia); Lore Lindu NP · Lake Tambing vicinity (Indonesia).
Photo: (c) Jason Alexander, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist