Elektra, my female Solomon Islands eclectus parrot, Eclectus roratus solomonensis. This is the smallest and most distinctively marked of all the subspecies of eclectus parrots. Image: GrrlScientist 4 ...

Mother Eclectus parrots peck their male babies to death to save the females who are easier to raise. A TROPICAL PARROT IS the only known species in the animal kingdom – besides humans – to kill its ...

The calculated killing of male eclectus parrot chicks by their mothers has been linked to a shortage of suitable nesting hollows that don't flood during tropical storms in northern Australia. The rare ...

Robyn Williams: The Eclectus parrot, a creature of enormous scientific importance because the female is gorgeous and the male is too. Normally it's only the male that's worth talking about. Rob ...

With its intensely pigmented emerald and crimson plumage, the eclectus parrot is like a living gemstone. NATIVE TO THE rainforests of the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Indonesia, and the north-eastern ...