The Dusky Lory (Pseudeos fuscata)| Gift Of Flight | Exotic Lories | Indian Aviculture | Orange Phase
The Dusky Lory (Pseudeos fuscata) is one of our favourite species from the Lory family that we are blessed to house at Gift Of Flight 🇮🇳 Mini Avian Conservation & Breeding Facility
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The dusky lory's native range includes New Guinea below about 2500m in both the Indonesian (West Papua), and Papua New Guinean zones of the island. It is also native to the nearby Indonesian islands of Salawati and Yapen.
The dusky lory is short-tailed parrot about 25 cm (10 in) long. It is mainly brown and has a whitish back and rump. It has two colour phases; the band across the upper chest together with its abdomen are either yellow or orange. The beak is dark orange and there is an area of bare orange skin at the base of its lower mandible. The irises are red and the legs are grey. The male and females are identical in external appearance. Juveniles are duller with a yellowish back and rump, yellowish-grey irises, and a beak that is yellow at the base and brown/black towards the tip.[