The south-eastern form often feeds on she-oak seeds and raises its young in hollows in old eucalypts.
Adult males are brownish black with red tail panels. Females have red to reddish-yellow tail panels barred with black and may have irregular yellow markings on the head.
It mainly eats seeds from mature Casuarina and Allocasuarina trees. It nests in hollows in large, old eucalypts.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.