John currently serves as Director of the Jazz Program and Associate Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University, and he has served on the faculties of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, North Carolina Central University and Guilford College (Greensboro, NC).
The other subspecies of eclectus parrot that is found in Australia is E. r. polychloros. This subspecies is only known from the Torres Strait islands. All other subspecies of this parrot are located in Indonesia, New Guinea, and several Pacific islands. Life history and behaviour. The eclectus parrots usually perch and feed high in the canopy.
One of only three migratory parrot species in the world, the Orange-bellied Parrot, Neophema chrysogaster, migrates annually from Tasmania to south-eastern Australia every winter. However, Orange-bellied Parrots are critically endangered and at risk of extinction in the next 3-5 years unless urgent action is taken.Zoos Victoria plays a key role in the recovery of this species by maintaining a genetically viable captive population at Healesville Sanctuary.range-bellied Parrot. Orange-bellied Parrots have a clutch size of 4-6 eggs and chicks usually fledge between 5-6 weeks. Photo: Chris Tzaros. Individuals flly over Bass Strait to feed on salt marsh around the south east coast of the mainland.