Rosellas  (Platycerus)
Colourful broad-tailed parrots with distinctive cheek patches - white, blue or yellow.

Blue-cheeked Rosella  (Platycerus elegans)

Medium sized (32-36cm) blue-cheeked Rosella with red, yellow or orange body with blue wings and tail.
Juvenile; mottled red and green on head. Green back and upper wings, belly and undertail coverts.

Two basic forms; Crimson Rosella, with bright crimson head and body, darker in north, ocurring from Kangaroo Island in the south to Cairns, Qld - and Yellow Rosella (race flaveolus) with yellow body and head (shading to orange in south).
Found in riverine forests of Murray, Lachlan, Murrumbidgee and lower Darling River system.
Range; common in forested areas in east and southeast.

Photos taken near Sunny Corner State Forest NSW showing  both adult and juvenile forms. The bird in the background is a Pied Currawong (Strepera graculina).