Eclectus Parrot adult female

Eclectus Parrot adult female

We arrived in New Britain a day late as a result of a flight cancellation. We had to stay in a hastily arranged hotel in Port Moresby the previous evening and I was in a panic because I had received a message to say that my flights back to the UK had changed but I had no working phones to obtain further details. Finally, the plane landed on the idyllic island of New Britain, the largest of Papua New Guinea’s islands and we travelled to the even more idyllic Walindi Dive Resort in Kimbe Bay. It was already late afternoon but a walk to Tamara Ridge was suggested. It was getting dark when this female Eclectus Parrot flew over and I managed to get this ok but a bit grainy flight shot

Country: Papua New Guinea
Location: Tamara Ridge
Family: Parrots (Psittacidae)
Species: Eclectus Parrot (Eclectus roratus)
Date taken: 19/07/2012