ABSTRACT
The Orange-bellied Parrot is fairly common in dry, bushed and wooded country, below 1200 m. Whilst absent from the lowland forests of the Congo basin, this parrot occupies interior Africa from Northeast (NE) Namibia and N South Africa, N through Angola, Zambia, Malawi, the E Zaire borders and East Africa, to Chad, South (S) Sudan and West (W) and N Ethiopia. Distribution in Kenya represents the E limit of the range. Substantial feral breeding populations have become established at Lake Naivasha 62C and in Nairobi 75B, with smaller numbers at a few other sites in the highlands, and these have freely interbred with similarly introduced Fischer's Lovebirds to form stable hybrids. Parrakeet occurs only infrequently as escapees from captivity around Nairobi 75B and Mombasa 114B. Inhabits lowland and medium altitude forests from Cameroon and Angola E to E Zaire and SW Uganda, with isolated populations in the primary highland to montane forests of N Tanzania and C and W Kenya.
