The Blue-rumped Short-tailed Parrot is a small parrot, also known as the Mexican Parrot, with mainly green feathers and blue wings. It is a typical climbing bird with a strong and powerful beak, a hooked beak, a movable joint in the upper jaw, and a wax membrane at the base of the beak. The muscular tongue is thick. The feet are short, powerful, and zygomatic, with two toes facing forward and two toes facing backward, which is suitable for grasping and climbing. It is a late-hatched chick.
It mainly inhabits dry and semi-open areas full of shrubs and trees, open forest areas, thorny plains, secondary vegetation areas, and the edges of rainforests. During the breeding season, they form small groups of 5 to 12, and occasionally more than 50, feeding on half-ripe and dry grass seeds, berries, fruits, vegetation, plant buds, flowers, etc.
At about 9:30 am on May 4, 2005, a male blue-rumped short-tailed parrot (Psittinus cyanurus) was found on the top of a tall tree about 3km away from "Tree House" in the Caiyang River Nature Reserve in Simao, which is a new record of bird species in my country.
