Crimson Rosella
Platycercus elegans
Mortimer Nature Walk, Bunyip State Park, SE Vic IMG_9297 20211130 - elegans CLICK for another view.
Notes: Variable. All have blue cheeks, black-scalloped blue-margined
wings & largely blue tail.
Crimson elegans, melanoptera,
nigrescens: Large crimson, black & blue parrot. Juveniles mostly
green.
Yellow flaveolus: crimson areas replaced with light yellow; tail more greenish;
red frontal
band. Adelaide fleurieuensis, subadelaidae: variation
in plumage from dark orange-red in S, to a
pale orange-yellow in N of range. Common in
coastal & wetter mountain forests at all altitudes.
Range from Pizzey & Knight©(modified). Note: hybrid forms in overlap regions: a rare example of a ring species.
Blue Knob, NE NSW IMG_4921 20220613 - elegans
Bear Gully Campground, SE Vic IMG_2369 20211124 - elegans 1st year immature: varying degree of green on body beingreplaced by red. CLICK for one at Green Hill Lake, Ararat, C Vic 20190509.
Tarra-Bulga NP, SE Vic IMG_4197 20190302 - elegans juvenile: except for crown, green replaces red on face, upper breast& undertail coverts.
Property, Lake Eacham, Tablelands, FN Qld IMG_2338 20200604 - nigrescens Darker crimson plumage, black napeand smaller size but larger bill.
Lake Mournpall, Hattah Kulkyne NP, NW Vic IMG_2513 20190511 - flaveolus CLICK for another at Glenrowan Caravan Park,N Vic 20211110
Deniliquin State Forest, S NSW IMG_5980 20200123 - flaveolus juvenile
Adelaide Botanic Gardens, SE SA IMG_5838 20181205 - fleurieuensis (mostly)
Mambray Creek, Mt Remarkable NP, SE SA IMG_5373 20181203 - subadelaidae (mostly)
Mambray Creek, Mt Remarkable NP, SE SA IMG_5396 20181203 - subadelaidae x fleurieuensis
Mambray Creek, Mt Remarkable NP, SE SA IMG_5393 20181203 - subadelaidae x fleurieuensis
Property, Lake Eacham, Tablelands, FN Qld IMG_2350+2352+2359 20200604 - nigrescens
Gunbower Island, N Vic MVI_4187 20170424 - flaveolus
Black Rock, Melbourne, S Vic IMG_0317 20210812 - elegans