This morning in suburban Canberra on my way to work I cycled past a group of feeding King Parrots. One bird was different in colour from the rest, it was light green, so light green in fact that at first I thought it was an escapee Ring-necked Parakeet feeding with them. However on closer observation it seemed to be a female King Parrot with all the dark green it replaced with a lighter, leaf-green. This doesn’t seem to be any of the usual plumage aberrations (leucistic, albino &c), or that viral disease they get with patches of yellow feathers.
Can anyone throw an light on this?
— John Leonard Canberra Australia www.jleonard.net
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