Ground Parrot
Calls & Sounds

Ground Parrot (Pezoporus wallicus)
Ground Parrot (Pezoporus wallicus)

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The Ground Parrot (Pezoporus wallicus) is a cryptic species of parrot with a patchy distribution in parts of south-eastern and south-western Australia, as well as in Tasmania. They inhabit heathland, sedgeland and buttongrass plains. The western population is sometimes considered a separate species – Western Ground Parrot (Pezoporus flaviventris). This taxon is Critically Endangered, with only a small number of birds remaining in coastal heathland along Western Australia’s southern coast.

What does a Ground Parrot sound like? Ground Parrots make melodic whistling phrases often given on an ascending scale. These song phrases are most often heard at dawn or dusk and on into the early evening. Several parrots often call and respond to one another as can be heard in the video below. At times these phrases are given as a series of more evenly-pitched notes. Ground Parrots also make bell-like notes as well as soft rasping calls.

Listen to some examples of Ground Parrot sounds below.

Listen to Ground Parrot Sounds

The audio in the video was recorded on a swampy buttongrass plain in the far south of Tasmania, and features the typical whistling song phrases of Ground Parrots at dusk.

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