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  Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot

 

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A Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot (fig.) gets its name from a blue spot on the head and its peculiar sleeping habit, i.e. hanging upside-down.

 

Due to this strange roosting position it earned the nickname bat parrot or bat parakeet.

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  Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot