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It is the world's only flightless parrot, the world's ... found in one of the islands of the South Pacific Ocean." [9] ... settlers called it the "owl parrot".
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Kiribati, an island nation in the central Pacific Ocean.The avifauna of Kiribati include a total of 90 species, of which two are endemic, and 3 have been introduced by humans.
The New Zealand parrot family, Strigopidae, [1] consists of at least three genera of parrots – Nestor, Strigops, the fossil Nelepsittacus, [2] [3] and probably the fossil Heracles. [4] The genus Nestor consists of the kea , kākā , Norfolk kākā and Chatham kākā , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] while the genus Strigops contains the iconic kākāpō . [ 5 ]
Parrots are found on all tropical and subtropical continents and regions including Australia and Oceania, [5] South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central America, South America, [4] and Africa. [47] Some Caribbean and Pacific islands are home to endemic species. [48] By far the greatest number of parrot species come from Australasia and South America. [49]
Southern New Guinea, the Aru Islands, coast of West Papua, and the Raja Ampat Islands: Geelvink pygmy parrot: M. geelvinkiana (Schlegel, 1871) i NT: Biak-Supiori and Numfor (islands of the Baik Island) Meek's pygmy parrot: M. meeki Rothschild and Hartert, 1914: LC: Admiralty Islands and the St Matthias Islands: Finsch's pygmy parrot: M ...
Many parrots are vividly coloured, and some are multi-coloured. In size they range from 8 cm (3.1 in) to 1 m (3.3 ft) in length. Old World parrots are found from Africa east across south and southeast Asia and Oceania to Australia and New Zealand. Red-breasted pygmy-parrot, Micropsitta bruijnii; Finsch's pygmy-parrot, Micropsitta finschii
The eastern rosella can be found in the northern half of the North Island (i.e. north of Taupō), the Taranaki Region north of Mount Taranaki, the Wellington Region, and in the hills around Dunedin. It is reported that an attempt to import eastern rosellas about 1910 was refused by customs , so the birds were released at sea off the Otago Heads ...
The umbrella term Pacific Islands has taken on several meanings. [1] Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania. [2] [3] [4] At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, or Japanese, or by the United States.