World's smallest parrot filmed

Pygmy parrots, as their name suggests, are the smallest members of the parrot family and are even smaller than budgerigars. There are six species which are found in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. Unusually for birds, pygmy parrots eat a lot of lichen and fungus as well as some seeds, fruit and insects. The tiny bird, which is not much bigger than an adult person's thumb, is smaller than some of the insects with which it shares the forest.

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