Layard's Parakeet

Layard's parakeet, or the emerald-collared parakeet, is a green parrot endemic to Sri Lanka, 29 cm long including a tail up to 13 cm. The adult has a bluish-grey head and back separated by a green collar, a broad black chin stripe and a blue tail tipped yellow. The male's upper bill is red and the lower brown, while the female has an all-black bill and less green on the face. It is named for the naturalist Edgar Leopold Layard (Wikipedia, species account).

It is locally common in forests, particularly at edges and clearings, and in gardens, and makes local movements according to the fruit, seeds, buds and blossoms it eats. It is usually in small groups outside the breeding season, often feeding with brahminy starlings, and nests in holes in large trees. Nationally Near Threatened (Sri Lanka National Red List 2012, listed as Psittacula calthropae, Sri Lanka Emerald-collared Parakeet).