Rainbow Lorikeet

This is one of Australian most colourful parrots. Its noisy and can become tame enough to hand feed.
Although usually moving about in small flocks, hundreds sometimes feed with their brush-like tongue on the blossom nectar of shurbs and trees.
In Australia lives 52 species of parrots.

Photos taken 1,2,3,4, Point Walter reserve, Perth W.A.

Je ena najbolj pisanih avstralskih papig. Je zelo glasna in dovolj krotka, da jo je mogoče hraniti iz roke.
Čeprav jih ponavadi vidimo v manjših jatah se jih včasih v drevesih na stotine hrani, z kot ščet oblikovanimi jeziki z cvetnim nektarjem.
V Avstraliji živi 52 vrst papig.