http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.shutterstock.co.in/pic-13901902/stock-photo-orange-bellied-parrot.html&ct=ga&cad=CAcQARgBIAEoBDAAOABA_fP17QRIAVgAYgVlbi1VUw&cd=xMNjv_wboAA&usg=AFQjCNGJtIGc553bdxjbSQPwrGPUVZi1ugThis photo is being touted as an OBP. Does anyone know what it is? ===============================
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Oh Dear! “How embarrassment!” as ‘Effie’ used to say!
John Tongue Ulverstone, Tas.
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Many thanks Tim for the laughs amongst the serious stuff about our – and their – suffering shorebirds
But my vote goes to:
“Three ducks, two with heads” http://www.shutterstock.co.in/s/wildlife/search.html#id=72457930
Michael Norris
As an aside (and for no particular reason) I had a look at some of the other Australian bird images listed on the site, with some interesting results!
“Arctic tern sitting on rock” http://www.shutterstock.co.in/s/wildlife/search.html#id=72813295
“Three ducks, two with heads” http://www.shutterstock.co.in/s/wildlife/search.html#id=72457930
“Square-tailed Kite” http://www.shutterstock.co.in/cat.mhtml?lang=en&search_source=search_form&version=llv1&anyorall=all&safesearch=1&searchterm=square+tailed+kite+&search_group=&orient=&search_cat=&searchtermx=&photographer_name=&people_gender=&people_age=&people_ethnicity=&people_number=&commercial_ok=&color=&show_color_wheel=1#id=52890925
“Australian Pied Cormorant” http://www.shutterstock.co.in/cat.mhtml?lang=en&search_source=search_form&version=llv1&anyorall=all&safesearch=1&searchterm=australian+bird&search_group=&orient=&search_cat=&searchtermx=&photographer_name=&people_gender=&people_age=&people_ethnicity=&people_number=&commercial_ok=&color=&show_color_wheel=1#id=51263233
“Australian Rainbow Lorikeet” http://www.shutterstock.co.in/cat.mhtml?lang=en&search_source=search_form&version=llv1&anyorall=all&safesearch=1&searchterm=australian+bird&search_group=&orient=&search_cat=&searchtermx=&photographer_name=&people_gender=&people_age=&people_ethnicity=&people_number=&commercial_ok=&color=&show_color_wheel=1#id=33064366
“Nankeen Kestrel” http://www.shutterstock.co.in/cat.mhtml?lang=en&search_source=search_form&version=llv1&anyorall=all&safesearch=1&searchterm=australian+bird&search_group=&orient=&search_cat=&searchtermx=&photographer_name=&people_gender=&people_age=&people_ethnicity=&people_number=&commercial_ok=&color=&show_color_wheel=1#id=24192913
“White-cheeked Honeyeater” http://www.shutterstock.co.in/cat.mhtml?lang=en&search_source=search_form&version=llv1&anyorall=all&safesearch=1&searchterm=australian+bird&search_group=&orient=&search_cat=&searchtermx=&photographer_name=&people_gender=&people_age=&people_ethnicity=&people_number=&commercial_ok=&color=&show_color_wheel=1#id=24207793
My favourite is this one – clearly it’s not that well known!
“The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo is probably Australia’s best known parrot” http://www.shutterstock.co.in/cat.mhtml?lang=en&search_source=search_form&version=llv1&anyorall=all&safesearch=1&searchterm=australian+bird&search_group=&orient=&search_cat=&searchtermx=&photographer_name=&people_gender=&people_age=&people_ethnicity=&people_number=&commercial_ok=&color=&show_color_wheel=1#id=24400204
Although this is pretty good!
“Emu drinking” http://www.shutterstock.co.in/cat.mhtml?lang=en&search_source=search_form&version=llv1&anyorall=all&safesearch=1&searchterm=australian+bird&search_group=&orient=&search_cat=&searchtermx=&photographer_name=&people_gender=&people_age=&people_ethnicity=&people_number=&commercial_ok=&color=&show_color_wheel=1#id=17243734
Cheers,
Tim Dolby
I’m not sure it’s worth the effort of contacting the site – it’s an online image distribution site that has nothing to do with birds. The bird is also clearly an aviary hybrid with little or no link to Orange-bellied Parrots, with the tagged reference not ‘Orange-bellied Parrot’, rather it is tagged ‘orange’, with another tag ‘bellied parrot’. (For example click on the tag ‘bellied’ below and see what you get.)
As Michael points, it looks like a Turquoise Parrot hybrid to me, with xanthochromism, where the colouration is unusually yellow through an excess of yellow pigment, and/or a loss of darker pigments that allows yellow pigment to be unusually dominant.
From what I can gather (although I know nothing about aviary birds
this particularly mutation is known as a ‘Yellow red-bellied Turquoise Parrot’. See a similar bird at http://www.zoochat.com/722/lutino-turquoisine-parrot-earnley-butterflies-birds-200348/.
Looking at this red-bellied mutation – they may have drawn the red out of the underbelly through hybridization with Scarlet-chested Parrot, although the red seems far too low. It seems more likely the red has been accentuated through xanthochromism, highlighting the fact that red appears on the belly of most of the neophema. For example have a look at this image of Elegant Parrot with an orange belly, taken by Tony Crittenden in Cleland, SA:
http://www.aviceda.org/abid/search.php?action=searchresult&p=5&keyword=Elegant+Parrot
Cheers,
Tim Dolby
Probably worth emailing the site and telling them before they sell it to too many people
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Hi Debbie, OBP it isn’t, looks to me like a male Turquoise Parrot, but an aviary bred bird, I think these birds are called lutino with yellow replacing green in the plumage. Someone with more knowledge of aviary birds would have more info than I do.
Michael Ramsey
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