| Blue-winged parrot | |
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| In Tasmania | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittaculidae |
| Genus: | Neophema |
| Species: | N. chrysostoma
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| Binomial name | |
| Neophema chrysostoma (Kuhl, 1820)
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The blue-winged parrot (Neophema chrysostoma), also known as the blue-banded parakeet or blue-banded grass-parakeet, is a small parrot found in Tasmania and southeast mainland Australia. It is partly migratory, with populations of blue-winged parrots travelling to Tasmania for the summer. The parrot is sexually dimorphic – the males have more blue on the wings and a two-toned blue frontal band on the head, while females are duller and have more green on the wings and a wingbar. Both sexes have predominantly olive-green plumage. Predominantly a feeder on the ground, the blue-winged parrot mainly eats seeds of grasses. It adapts readily to captivity.
- ^ BirdLife International (2022). "Neophema chrysostoma". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T22685194A210989456. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T22685194A210989456.en. Retrieved 24 July 2022.