If you live in Victoria, these delightful parrots will be well known to you. They can also be found along the NSW coast, just over the the border into Qld and in the SE corner of SA. While they form permanent pairs, they still perform courtship rituals, which include the male feeding the female (as he'll do when she's incubating their eggs). Males and females are hard to tell apart - the female's beak is slightly narrower and she has a white underwing bar (only visible in flight). Juveniles are greener and can look quite blotchy when maturing into adult feathers.
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