A rosella's one of 5-8 species of colorful Australian parrots in the genus Platycercus. Platycercus means "broad-" or "flat-tailed", reflecting a feature common to the rosellas and other members of the broad-tailed parrot tribe. Their diet consists mainly of seeds and fruit. Etymology A story goes that early European settlers first encountered the Eastern Rosella at Rose Hill, now a Sydney suburb, and so they called it the Rosehill Parakeet, which became, "Rosehiller", which eventually "Rosell… (More on Rosella)