One of the residents in the bird avairies in the upper part of the Dunedin Botanic Gardens.

The Plum-headed Parakeet (Psittacula cyanocephala) is a parakeet endemic to the Indian Subcontinent. Thery are found mainly in flocks, the males having a pinkish purple head and the females, a grey head. They fly swiftly with twists and turns accompanied by their distinctive calls, being a gregarious and noisy species with range of raucous calls. The Plum-headed Parakeet is a bird of forest and open woodland. They are found from the foothills of the Himalayas south to Sri Lanka.