Is This My Best Side?

Pastel on Pastelmat board ($POA)

55 cm W x 46 cm H
The green rosella or Tasmanian rosella (Platycercus caledonicus) is a species of parrot native to Tasmania and Bass Strait islands. Found in a wide range of habitats with some form of tree cover, the green rosella is predominantly herbivorous, consuming seeds, berries, nuts and fruit, as well as flowers, but may also eat insect larvae and insects such as psyllids. Their nesting site is usually a hollow over 1 m deep in a tree trunk anywhere up to 30 m above the ground. Chimneys, holes in walls and even the vertical pipes of tennis court fences have been used. Green rosellas nested in a wall cavity at Port Arthur convict prison site in 1958 and 2009, which is where this bird was spotted.