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The widely-distributed ringnecked parrot occurs in a number of forms, some of which may be separate species: the Port Lincoln parrot, the Cloncurry ringneck, the '28' parrot, and this form, the mallee ringneck. Mallee ringnecks live in arid scrublands (mallee is a low, multi-trunked shrublike eucalypt). These ringnecks were at the Fowlers Gap arid zone research station in far northwestern New South Wales. The bird at upper right has just fed chicks in the tree branch cavity where it is sitting. |
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