Eastern rosella
Scientific name: Platycercus eximius (Shaw, 1792)
Overview
The eastern rosella is a parrot native and endemic to south-eastern Australia. It was first introduced to New Zealand in cages, and individuals were subsequently intentionally released or accidentally escaped into the wild. In New Zealand, it is now established in the North Island and in the hills around Dunedin in the South Island.
From the Wikipedia article “Eastern rosella”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Least concern on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021.3.
Where it lives
The Catalogue of Life records it in: Australia.
Common names
Names in other languages (9)
- French
- Perruche omnicolore
- German
- Rosella, Rosellasittich
- Indonesian
- Rosella timur
- Japanese
- ナナクサインコ
- Persian
- طوطی گلی شرقی
- Portuguese
- periquito-omnicolor, rosela-multicolorida, rosela-oriental
- Russian
- Обыкновенная розелла, Розелла
- Spanish
- Perico multicolor
- Turkish
- Doğu yassıkuyruğu
Related animals
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names and range.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q827866, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Eastern rosella”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026