- DISTRIBUTION : Australia Indonesia Papua New Guinea
- HABITAT : Riverine woodland grassland scrubland etc.
- BEHAVIOUR AND FOOD HABIT : Intelligent and friendly, very social bird. Able to mimic and talk. Enjoy being affectionate. Loud and gregarious. Gather in huge flocks and damages the farmers crops. They feed on seeds nuts fruits berries flowers insects roots etc.
- FOOD SERVED HERE : Soaked maize soaked gram sunflower seed kusum seed ground nut sugarcane fruits milk bread.
- BRIEF DESCRIPTION :
1. BODY LENGTH- 36 to 38 cm .
2. BODY WEIGHT- 350 to 530 gm.
3. BODY COLOUR - primarily white with bare bluish gray patches around their eyes. - LIFE-SPAN : 50 to 80 years
- THREAT : Habitat fragmentation illegal trade
- CONSERVATION STATUS : Least concern IUCN 3.1. Appendix II CITES.