Latin Name: Trichoglossus forsteni mitchellii

Status: Vulnerable

Food: Feeds mainly on nectar but will also take figs, insects and can be found around man-made feeding stations

Distribution: Bali Indonesia

Interesting Fact: This is one of the ‘Rainbow Lorikeets’, each one coming from a different location and having slightly different colouring.

Mitchell’s Lorikeet

Mitchell’s Lorikeets from Paradise Park are now in Bali helping to restore the species.

Tragically, this beautiful bird has been driven to the brink of extinction, mainly due to capture for the pet trade.

Paradise Park is central to a great project to restore the highly endangered Mitchell’s Lorikeet to its native Bali.

In July 2025, after years of planning, a group of 40 Mitchell’s Lorikeets bred here left Cornwall to their new homes in Bali.

Our partners in the project are the World Parrot Trust, with Bali Bird Park and Taman Safari the two organisations which will hold and breed the
lorikeets. Young birds will be released into suitable habitat, supported and monitored as they adapt to the wild.

In 2012 BirdLife International announced that Mitchell’s Lorikeet was to be split from the big Trichoglossus haematodus group and would instead become a subspecies of Forsten’s Lorikeet.

They live for around 20 years in the wild and 15 to 20 years in captivity.

Read the full story from summer 2025 how 40 Mitchell’s Lorikeets bred in Cornwall are saving the species from extinction in Bali.