Musk Lorikeet

Call and song

• Recording 1 · call

  Recording: Richard White · Xeno-canto · CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 (licence)

• Recording 2

  Recording: Ramit Singal; Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library

• Recording 3

  Recording: Fred W. Loetscher, Jr.; Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library

About the Musk Lorikeet

Medium-sized bright green and yellow lorikeet with red and blue facial markings. Note red cheek patch behind eye. Feeds in flowering eucalypt trees on pollen and nectar, however, also eats insects and fruit. Nomadic; moves in response to flowering eucalypts.

Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made

Where it has been recorded

Recorded in 1 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.

• Australia