Length: 12.2-14.6 m   (40-48 ft)**Weight: 22.7-36.3 tonnes (25-40 tons)**, Everything you need to know about Willie Wagtails, Foraging behaviours of Willie Wagtails Rhipidura leucophrys, cockatoos and parrots >strong, downward-curving bill; feet have two toes pointing forward and two back; can use feet like hands to manipulate food; by using feet together with strong bill, they climb well, blue-bellied lorikeet, blue mountain lorikeet, blue mountain parrot, Swainson’s lorikeet, coconut lory, rainbow lory, Red-collared Lorikeet (sometimes considered a sub species; it occurs in the north) >Scaly-breasted lorikeet, head and body length 30cm (1ft); wing 15 cm (6in), males and females are similar but female is smaller and has shorter bill, immature birds have duller plumage than adults; also shorter bill, body, wing, strongly gregarious; usually travel in parties of a few dozen; much larger flocks congregate where there are is plenty of food, brush tipped tongue – adaptation for feeding on pollen and nectar, bathe by fluttering among foliage soaked by due or rain, screech in flight; noisy chatter while feeding, flocks flying overhead respond quickly to the calls of birds feeding in trees below, pollen is a rich source of protein; major component of the diet, nectar, blossoms mainly from Myrtaceae, Proteacea, Xanthoroaceae, fruits, berries, seeds, occasionally insects (beetles, wasps, thrips, ants, weevils) and larvae (fly maggots, weevil larvae, moth larvae), also apples, pears, mangos – can cause damage to orchards, also maize and sorghum crops where they feed on the unripe ‘milky’ grain, morning feeding session can continue for 4 hours, need to feed for 2-5 hours to satisfy their daily requirements, feeding rate : 30-40 Eucalyptus flowers per minute, feeding bouts are interrupted by short breaks of less than 10 seconds to look around, prefer to feed on flowers in the outer foliage of a tree, when it’s hot, they have a break in the middle of the day and return to a feeding area later, daily journeys to feeding site of more 50kms (30miles), drink water that has been trapped by leaves or interlocking fronds; also drink surface water, Arrangement of the toes and use of the bill make them acrobatic feeders, extract nectar with their brush-tipped tongue after first crushing the flowers with their bill; tiny hair-like projections (papillae) on the end of the tongue are extended while feeding to soak up nectar and gather pollen from blossoms, use open bill in sideways brushes up and down the sides of spiked flowers like Xanthorrhoea, Banksia, Melaleuca, Callistemon; this collects pollen and nectar droplets on the edge of their bills, place open bill over a blossom and project their tongue into the receptacles to get at the nectar then comb their bill across the stamens to collect pollen, for hard fruits of rainforest trees, they grate the fruit on the inside of their open bill, extract seeds from sheoak cones and pieces by using the tip of the upper mandible to ease the winged seed from the dehiscing cone, chew green Eucalyptus flower and leaf buds, fly high when travelling long distances; on short flights manoeuvre between trees, establish flight paths from the roosting sites that are followed daily; these paths tend to follow geographic features like the coastline or a line of hills, valleys, rivers, daily journeys to feeding site of more 50kms (30 miles), have established flight paths to and from the roost that are 2-4km wide (1.2-2.4 miles), the wing loadings and aspect ratios of their wings mean that they have difficulty landing and taking off from the ground but that they have an advantage for long-range flight at high speed, although tens of thousands of birds may gather overnight in a roost, during the day they tend to move in smaller groups, usually groups of less than 10 birds leave the roost together in the morning, throughout the day, travelling flocks have about 16 members, sometimes see very large flocks of up to 1000 birds when several travelling flocks land before returning to the roost, rainforest, open forest, woodland, heath, mangroves, along watercourses, mallee, gardens, parks, orchards considered a lowland species, but in Australia it is not uncommon to find them in mountainous regions – they may be altitudinal migrants, northern Australia from Kimberley region to Cape York, eastern Australia along the east coast and around to Eyre Peninsula in South Australia also occur in the regions of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia, reproductive cycle, community organisation, and movements are determined by the flowering patterns of their food resources, local patterns of distribution have altered with the introduction of food sources in suburban gardens, nomadic – go where the food is; food resources tend to be abundant but short-lived; however, they can remain within an area if there are enough food patches to sustain them throughout the year, raptors – peregrine falcon, brown falcon, whistling kite, frequently seen with Scaly-breasted Lorikeets, may also flock with Musk or Little Lorikeets, unlike many native birds, the Rainbow Lorikeet competes successfully against Indian Mynas and Starlings for nesting hollows, will chase much larger birds from what it considers to be its food; also chase Scaly-breasted Lorikeets and Noisy Friarbirds from flowers that they fancy, birds are thought to mate for life (like most parrots) pairs preen and nibble each other during rest periods, resting pairs display minor aggression towards nonpair birds by biting and protesting, hollow limb or hole in a tree up to 25m (80 ft) above the ground, with a layer of wood dust at the bottom; eggs are laid on the wood dust 0.5-1.5m (1.5-5 ft) in from the entrance to the hole which may be a knot-hole or from a broken-off branch a number of hollows are investigated before one is chosen, nesting can continue for 8 months annually beginning around March, doesn’t nest in rainforest, prefers more open country, a pair can produce up to 3 broods in a season, female incubated even though the male spends time in the nesting hollow; lasts about 25 days.

Rainbow lorikeets are susceptible to lorikeet paralysis syndrome, a condition in which birds are unable to move their body, wings, legs, or head.
Males and females look identical, and surgical sexing by a vet or DNA analysis of a feather is used to determine the sex of an individual.[12][13].

If you're looking for a laid-back bird, this may not be the right bird for you. The Rainbow Lorikeet has acclimatised well to urbanisation and is commonly encountered in well-treed suburbs. The related Scaly-breasted Lorikeet is similar in size and shape, but …

The end of the tongue is equipped with a papillate appendage adapted to gathering pollen and nectar from flowers. They roost in trees at night numbering in the hundreds and thousands.

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