Hot tip - differentiating sex in Swift Parrots

Hot tip from Dr Dejan Stojanovic (tweeted: https://twitter.com/teamswiftparrot/status/1379952684011114501)

You can tell the sex of a swift parrot by the colour of the feathers underneath the tail - red for males, light red/salmon for females:

Male:

(photo by Jeff Melvaine, observation here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/65846833)

Female:

(photo by Dejan Stojanovic, tweeted here: https://twitter.com/teamswiftparrot/status/1379952684011114501)

Posted on 14 April, 2021 06:21 by tamika_lunn