Description

Colour Adult:

Male-color generally emerald to grass green, with yellowish underparts and underwings. Black thin line from cere to eyes, broad moustache-like stripes on lower cheeks and chin out to sides of neck, and narrow black neck-stripes bordered by blue patches over ears and neck and below by pink lines going to hindneck.  Upper beak red, lower black. Eye pale yellow. Female-plainer with all black beak, no head markings; shorter tail.

Colour Juvenile:

As in adult female, but tail short; bill coral/pink in very young individuals.

Call:

Low call cha-chaachaa at a rate of two notes/second interspersed with harsher notes.  High pitched call when excited or in flight.  Bark in alarm.  Also melodious purring or whistling