This is a beautiful shot!

Photo credit: Dillon Howard

The diet of the eclectus in the wild consists of mainly fruits, wild figs, unripe nuts, flower and leaf buds, and some seeds. Two favorite fruits are the pomegranate and the papaya (pawpaw) with seeds. In captivity, they will eat most fruits including mangos, figs, guavas, bananas, anymelons, stone fruits (peaches etc), grapes, citrus fruits, pears and apples. The eclectus has an unusually long digestive tract and this is why it requires such a high fiber diet. In captivity the eclectus parrot does benefit from a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, leafy greens such as endive and dandelion, as well as a variety of seeds, including spray millet, and a few nuts such as shelled almonds and shelled walnuts.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclectus_Parrot#Diet

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There are nine (possibly more) subspecies of Eclectus Parrots, although the species as a whole needs reviewing. Access to many regions where the species occurs is difficult due to both geographical and political reasons, and hence field observations have been limited. Furthermore, many skins were collected in the early part of the 19th century and are deteriorating in some museums.^[4] In captivity in the U.S., some of the most common subspecies are the Solomon Island, the Vosmaeri, and the New Guinea Red-sided. In museums in the US, the condition of the skins collected in the late 1800s and early 1900s are in good condition.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclectus_Parrot

After a bath

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The Eclectus Parrot is the most sexually dimorphic of all the parrot species. The contrast between the brilliant emerald green plumage of the male and the deep red/purple plumage of the female is so marked that the two birds were, until the early 20th century, considered to be different species.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclectus_Parrot

Cohan

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Ornithologists usually classify the Eclectus Parrot as a member of tribe Psittaculini in the Psittacidae family of order Psittaciformes. However, some recent thought indicates that there is a great deal of commonality between the Eclectus Parrot and the Loriinae tribe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclectus_parrot#Taxonomy

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