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@Kit_Rumble @guy_verkroost @ABSAbirds The type specimen of this species, from New Guinea, has a more discrete blue "eye" in front of its actual eye... hence "double-eyed". Not quite the same in the two subspecies found in Australia. Pic of the New Guinea bird from Gould (1875-1888) via @BioDivLibrary

@xochilili @SandyHorne61 Go and look up a proper bird guide before you start arguing with a knowledgeable and experienced Australian birder. @SandyHorne61 photographed and identified a wild-type bird; your narrow experience with genetically-selected, captive-bred birds is simply not relevant here.

@lucaDiGiorgio9 There are several closely-related "blue wren" (Malurus) species, including this one. Only males in breeding plumage are bright blue; the extent and distribution of blue varies with the species. Lovely artwork by @paperbark_ https://t.co/EcblcWcTWt #wrensday

@RebeccaGrambo The green pigments seem to have faded right across the artwork, so we're pretty certain that's a depiction of plum-headed parakeet (Himalayapsitta cyanocephala).

[Pic on right from Punjab, India, by R Thapar via @MacaulayLibrary https://t.co/j1yv8qWo51]

#ParrotsAtoZ Day 93: C is for creamy-breasted fig-parrot (Cyclopsitta amabilis), coastal NE New Guinea, part of the orange-breasted fig-parrot superspecies. Uncommon to rare, and we can't find any verifiable photos; lithograph of a male by Keulemans (1898) via @BioDivLibrary

#ParrotsAtoZ C is for Coxen's fig-parrot (Cyclopsitta coxeni), SE Queensland and NE New South Wales, Australia. Endangered due to habitat clearance, rarely seen or photographed; mature population may be only 50-250. Pic from Gould's "The Birds of Australia" via @BioDivLibrary

Delightful black and pink cockatoo prints by Isabel Saavedra, who we met at a recent craft market at @HeideMoMA in Melbourne. More art and more info at Isabel's Etsy shop: https://t.co/6dhP5qam2x #BirdArt #ParrotArt

Only the male blue-collared parrot (Geoffroyus simplex) of New Guinea, today's species (under B) in #ParrotsAtoZ, actually has a blue collar. Photos are rare, so here's a plate from Gould's "The birds of New Guinea and the adjacent Papuan islands" (1875-1888) via @BioDivLibrary

It's #ThreatenedSpeciesDay and the best Australia's @TSCommissioner can do (once again) is run a cake-decorating competition. This comes after the Samuel enquiry handed down a damning report showing that our entire system for protecting threatened species is broken (thread)...

@GermanGirl73 @CherylMorrisW The Australasian fairywrens (Maluridae) are unrelated to "true" wrens of Eurasia and the Americas but are certainly stunning. Lovely illustration (also available as a tea towel) by Paula Peeters @paperbark_ #Wrensday