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The yellow-crowned parakeet (Cyanoramphus auriceps) also known as the yellow-fronted parakeet is a species of parakeet endemic to the islands of New Zealand.The species is found across the main three islands of New Zealand, North Island, South Island and Stewart Island/Rakiura, as well as on the subantarctic Auckland Islands.
The mainland species are the kea (Nestor notabilis), the New Zealand kākā (Nestor meridionalis), the kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus), and three species of kākāriki: the yellow-crowned parakeet (Cyanoramphus auriceps), the red-crowned parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae) and the orange-fronted parakeet (Cyanoramphus malherbi).
The three species on mainland New Zealand are the yellow-crowned parakeet (Cyanoramphus auriceps), the red-crowned parakeet, or red-fronted parakeet (C. novaezelandiae), and the critically endangered Malherbe's parakeet or orange-fronted parakeet (C. malherbi – not to be confused with Eupsittula canicularis a popular aviary bird known as the ...
Antipodes parakeet. Cyanoramphus unicolor (Lear, 1831) Antipodes Islands, New Zealand Size: Habitat: Diet: VU Yellow-crowned parakeet. Cyanoramphus auriceps (Kuhl, 1820) New Zealand Size: Habitat: Diet: NT Malherbe's parakeet or orange-fronted parakeet Cyanoramphus malherbi Souancé, 1857: New Zealand [8] [9] Size: Habitat: Diet: CR Red-crowned ...
Yellow-crowned parakeet: C. auriceps (Kuhl, 1820) i NT: New Zealand, Stewart Island, and Auckland Island: Malherbe's parakeet: C. malherbi de Souancé, 1857: CR: South Island (of New Zealand) Red-crowned parakeet: C. novaezelandiae (Sparrman, 1787) i NT: New Zealand and several nearby islands, New Caledonia, and Norfolk Island: Society parakeet ...
Many parrots are vividly colored, and some are multi-colored. 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-crowned parakeet, Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae; Yellow-crowned parakeet, Cyanoramphus auriceps
Codfish Island / Whenua Hou is a small island (14 km 2 or 5.4 sq mi) located to the west of Stewart Island in southern New Zealand. It reaches a height of 250 m (820 ft) close to the south coast. It reaches a height of 250 m (820 ft) close to the south coast.
Approximately 71% of the bird species breeding in New Zealand before humans arrived are widely accepted as being endemic. [ 1 ] There is also a smaller group of species are not fully endemic, but are breeding endemic, in that they breed only in New Zealand, but migrate or range elsewhere.