Crimson Rosella


Crimson Rosella during dinner
My first parrot in the wild: a Crimson Rosella, Platycercus elegans. Hopping and climbing around in a shrub next Binna Burra it had dinner shortly before we went for it.
By then, I didn't know there is a whole bunch of different Rosellas in Australia, for example the Northern Rosella. The common European - like me - just knows one: the Eastern Rosella I have NOT seen there...


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