Red-fan parrots prefer to live amongst forest and or savannah woodland up to an altitude of 400 meters. They avoid flooded areas and cleared woodland.

This parrot likes to feed in canopy fruits, seeds, flowers, and nuts, as well as other vegetable matter. They especially like palm fruits and guava.

In the wild the breeding season is from November to April, Red-fan parrots like to nest in abandoned woodpecker holes. Preferring to be about 10 meters above the ground. A clutch of 2 to 3 eggs is laid within and incubated for about 28 days. Young become fledged in about 9 to 10 weeks from hatching.

Red-fan parrots are a threatened species, mainly to the caged bird trade, along with habitat destruction due to deforestation.

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