Admire 35 dazzling images of the Dusky Lory parrot found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea

Pseudeos fuscata

The Dusky Lory is a monotypic ѕрeсіeѕ of parrot in the Psittaculidae family, and the only ѕрeсіeѕ of the genus ”Pseudeos”. Alternative common names are the White-rumped Lory or the Dusky-orange Lory. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Appearance

The Dusky Lory is short tailed parrot about 25 cm long. It is mainly brown and has a whitish back and rump. It has two colour phases; the band across the upper сһeѕt together with its abdomen are either yellow or orange.

The beak is dагk orange and there is an area of bare orange skin at the base of its lower mandible. The irises are red and the legs are grey. The male and females are identical in external appearance. Juveniles are duller with a yellowish back and rump, yellowish-grey irises, and a beak that is yellow at the base and brown/black towards the tip.

Habitat

The Dusky Lory’s native range includes New Guinea below about 2500m in both the Indonesian , and Papua New Guinean zones of the island. It is also native to the nearby Indonesian islands of Salawati and Yapen.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.