This is Viti Levu’s own species of Musk Parrot.  If you look carefully at this parrot and see a slightly flat and squarish top and back to the head profile, it’s a male. The female’s head profile is more rounded at the back. The male bill is also slightly broader than the female and he is slightly heavier.

A versatile parrot that frequents habits from mangrove to wet mountain forests, it lives in groups and is very noisy and sociable. They eat a variety of soft & hard fruits, seeds and caterpillars.

They average 47cm in size and normally nest in the second half of the year but records are scant. They nest in holes and cracks in trees and stumps, enlarging the hole by digging with that huge bill. They lay 2 off-white eggs.