Picturesque Friday 2 – Plum Headed Parakeet

Plum Headed Parakeet is brilliantly-colored parakeet; males have a plum-colored head while females have grayish-blue head. Endemic to the Indian subcontinent where it can occur in any well-wooded area outside NE India and the high Himalayas. Similar to the largely non-overlapping Blossom-headed Parakeet, but shows a darker shade of plum or gray on the head and a white-tipped tail (not yellow). They also lack the red shoulder patch seen on Blossom-headed females. A yellow upper bill separates it from all overlapping parakeets.

These photos are clicked using Canon EOS 7d Mark ii with the Telephoto Lens Tamron 150-600mm

These photos are clicked at Sattal, Uttarakhand, India. It’s a heaven for bird phptography. I am amzed to see tiny colourful birds that I aloways call them Winged Wonders. Enjoy the friday pictures.

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Published by Mukund Karadkhedkar

Engineer by profession and Wildlife Photographer by passion. Loves nature.

6 thoughts on “Picturesque Friday 2 – Plum Headed Parakeet

  1. Dear Mukund
    When I read your posts, I enter into a different realm of thoughts. I felt the same reading this post.
    Thanks for liking my post, ‘Independence’. 👍❤️🙏🌶😍😊

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