The eastern Bluebonnet (Northiella haematogaster) is an Australian parrot, one of two species in the genus Northiella. The Bluebonnet is a medium sized inland parrot commonly found in the interior of southeastern and central-southern Australia. It is adapted to life in semi-arid regions but can also flourish in regions of medium rainfall towards the eastern and southern extremities of its range. Since my photos are too blurry (see below) to do justice to the subtle beauty of this bird, I have to reply on Wikipedia’s photo.
I only saw them at a distance.
They do have a large range over most of inland eastern Australia. I have personally seen them at Bowra Station & Mosquito Creek Road near Lake Coolmunda (blue dots) in SE Queensland. Both times the birds were flying at lightning speed but at least the Coolmunda birds made a nice semi-circle through the trees giving me more time to try to get a photo!
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VIDEO
It wasn’t easy to find a video of these birds in the wild though there are some captive bird on Youtube. I found this clip on Vimeo but you have to click through to Vimeo to see it.
IBC also has a few clips.