Red Crimson Rosella Bird Eating, 1014 pieces Jigsaw Puzzle
This is a unique and colorful jigsaw puzzle featuring one of Australia's beautiful birds. This cute Crimson Rosella is enjoying a snack! This image was taken while exploring the amazing Wilsons Promontory National Park in Victoria, Australia. This puzzle is ideal for any bird lover, so get one for yourself or buy it as the perfect gift! Perfect for when you need to stay inside. Spend some quality time indoors with friends and family, or keep the kids happy and entertained! The Crimson Rosella (Platycercus elegans elegans) has blue cheek patch, shoulders and tail. Crimson body and head, white beak. Back is crimson with black scalloping. Females similar to males with white underwing bar. Juveniles/immature have blue cheek patches with olive green back and green tail; under side is green with crimson scalloping and crimson breast. In some places juvenile Crimson Rosellas are known locally as Green Rosellas. Grows to 32 to 37 centimetres. Subspecies elegans is found in south-east Queensland, coastal New South Wales and much of Victoria while subspecies nigrescens lives along the coast of central Queensland. Crimson Rosellas are mainly seed and fruit eaters. They forage on the ground and in the outer foliage of trees, picking up seed ready to eat or breaking into fruit holding it in the left foot. Early in the morning they fly out to drink and feed in shrubs and trees or on the ground. When on the ground in sunlight they keep to shaded patches. Eucalyptus seeds are a diet staple but they take a wide range of grains from weeds, grasses and shrubs. They harvest lerps from leaves and have raided eucalyptus flowers for nectar. Crimson rosellas are often regarded as pests by orchardists and householders. Lives in humid forests of the east coast and Victoria, in rainforests, tall, dense, wet eucalypt forests, along timbered watercourses and farmland near forests. Flies rapidly twisting and turning between tree trunks and limbs. Abundant in forests and in suburbs of cities They rest quietly in tree tops during the middle of the day, occasionally nibbling on leaves and socialising in small chattering groups. They feed again in the late afternoon then fly to their roosts. This is a gregarious bird; adults gather in groups of five or six while immature birds (more green than the red of adults) gather, sometimes with a few adults, into wandering groups of up to 30 birds. Immature bands break up at the beginning of the breeding season as birds adopt adult plumage and pair up. There is no feeding territory. Adults gather in small social groups in and out of breeding season and engage in chattering and tail displays. Pairing seem to be permanent, even within small social groups of adults. Male and female do not preen each other but the male does feed the female during courtship and while she is incubating and brooding the young.
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