Rainbow Lorikeet
Author: csleesburg
Category: ZT2 Ambient Animals
Date Added: July, 2006
Size: 105 KB
Compatibility: ZT2 ES
Description: A bird that flies over your zoo.
Rainbow Lorikeet. Males and females are similar but female is smaller and has shorter bill. They live to over 20 years in the wild. They are active, noisy, belligerent, conspicuous and strongly gregarious; usually travel in parties of a few dozen; much larger flocks congregate where there are is plenty of food. They eat by using their brush tipped tongue to soak up nectar – an adaptation for feeding on pollen and nectar. Small birds, their head and body length is 30cm (1ft); wing 15 cm (6in); weight around 133g (5oz). Rainbow lorikeets distribution is mainly over the north-east in Australia.
Their habitat ranges from forests of all sorts scrub, open forests, rainforest, sclerophyll forest (a typically Australian vegetation type having plants with hard, short and often spiky leaves occurring in a band around Australia from southern Queensland to the south-west of Western Australia) coastal or inland, to any area including urban areas (grassland) that have suitable trees.
They bathe by fluttering among foliage soaked by dew or rain, and use powder downs - special down feathers with the tip constantly breaking down to form a waxy powder that the bird spreads through the plumage during preening
Their voice is screech in flight and a noisy chatter while feeding. Flocks flying overhead respond quickly to the calls of birds feeding in trees below.
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