Its species can be told by the long tail, which is black or gray and has a white band across the middle of the feathers. The ...

Eye color is orange to red. Undersides with rufous barring, undertail is white. Juvenile: brown above, with rufous edges and white spots on upperwing coverts. Tail long, with straight bands and ...

Adult: relatively small, slender; moderately long ... tail pattern, and pattern can vary among feathers. All-dark bill is relatively thin, short to medium length. Mouth lining flesh-color.

Bird populations ... across a remarkably colorful parrot, even by parrot standards. The paradise parrot, as it was then known, was a medium-sized parrot with a long tail and a radiant plumage ...