page_title: Lord Derby's parakeet
section_title: Reproduction
hierarchical_section_title: Lord Derby's parakeet / Reproduction
caption_attribution_description: English: Derbyan parakeet (Psittacula_derbiana). A juvenile playing with a bolt on a cage. Juveniles have dark irises, orange-red upper and lower mandible and a green crown.
context_page_description: Lord Derby's parakeet, also known as Derbyan parakeet, is a parrot species, which is confined to small pocket of moist evergreen forest in the hills and mountains of the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, and adjoining parts of Tibet, Sichuan and Yunnan in China. The species suffers from cutting of old trees and poaching for the illegal wildlife trade. In 2011, its status was updated from Least Concern to Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. The adult male and female are easily distinguished because they have different beak colours and slightly different plumage.
  The name of this bird commemorates Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby.
  Lord Derby's parakeets feed on fruits, berries, seeds, and leaf buds, occasionally foraging in gardens and fields.
context_section_description: Breeding season usually begins between April and June. The female lays a clutch of two to four eggs (36.1 mm × 27.7 mm [1.42 in × 1.09 in]) in nest holes of trees. The young hatch after an incubation period of about 23 days and will fledge after 8 to 9 weeks.
caption: Juvenile playing with a bolt on a cage in Tibet. Juveniles have dark irises and both the upper and lower mandible are orange-red.
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