His back is dark brown with yellow on the wing coverts. The underside of the parrot is greenish-yellow, and its beak is dark gray. The female parrot coloring on the upper parts of the body is greenish and there is no yellow on the wings. The sides of its head and under parts are pale greenish-blue. This species reaches full adult coloration in 14-18 months.
Young males have smaller heads than young females.
Young females also do not have black or yellow coloring. Hooded Parrots maybe a subspecies of the Golden-shouldered Parrot. Hooded Parrots are rare and only found in the northeast part of the Northern Territory of Australia. They inhabit arid regions of open forest, woodlands and savannah. Hooded Parrots form feeding flocks.