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Blue-winged Parrots are small parrots. They have a yellow gape and small facial mask, a narrow blue supercilium and an otherwise olive-green head, chest and back. The belly, vent and undertail coverts are yellow. The uppertail is dark bluish-green, the undertail is yellow. The wings have almost all-blue coverts, with some turquoise on them, and near-black flight feathers. The irises are dark, the bill is dark-grey and the legs and feet are grey.

The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org .

The global distribution of the Blue-winged Parrot is available HERE .

NB: Reports on ebird of birds submitted by birdwatchers from the Australian Outback tend to be clustered along roads and public areas such as camp grounds; in such cases their distribution is not a good representation of the overall distribution of the species.

Blue-winged Parrots are endemic to Australia. Their core breeding range is the northern half of Tasmania and the southern coastal fringe of VIC on the Australian continent. They are also present on both Flinders Island and King Island. Outside the breeding season they disperse from there, with many Blue-winged Parrots crossing Bass Strait to the continent. Their dispersal goes into the lower and central Murray-Darling Basin, encompassing all of VIC and much of western NSW up to the Darling River and the lower Paroo River and also Broken Hill, NSW. They also enter SA, reaching far to the North of Adelaide, SA. On rare occasions the dispersal can go as far as Sydney, NSW, to Walgett, NSW, into far south-western QLD and the entire eastern half of SA, including the Lake Eyre Basin.

Blue-winged Parrots are found in a variety of habitats, ranging from open forest and woodland to grassland, coastal heath and even saltmarsh.

B. Hensen reports spotting a small mob of Blue-winged Parrots on Bruny Island, TAS, in March 2016.

R. Plumtreereports finding a Blue-winged Parrot at the Mulga Dam Camping Area, Kamarooka State Park, near Bendigo, VIC, in October 2018.

Both M. Eaton and ourselves found Blue-winged Parrots at Lake Bindegolly NP, QLD, in June 2019.