The Dusky Lory has brown to olive plumage with yellow or red-orange areas. It follows flowering trees and shares communal roosts.
Adults are brown to olive, with yellow or red-orange bands on the underparts. Plumage varies between color forms.
It occurs at forest edges, in secondary growth and savanna, and follows flowering trees. It eats nectar, pollen, fruit, and small insects, and shares roosts in flocks.
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