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The rainbow lorikeet has often included the red-collared lorikeet (T. rubritorquis) as a subspecies, but today most major authorities consider it separate. [14] [15] Additionally, a review in 1997 led to the recommendation of splitting off some of the most distinctive taxa from the Lesser Sundas as separate species, these being the scarlet-breasted lorikeet (T. forsteni), the marigold lorikeet ...
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Lories and lorikeets live in Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia and the Pacific. [14] The red lory in particular is endemic to the Moluccas and surrounding islands in Indonesia . Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests and tropical mangrove forests.
There is no information from the wild. In captivity: three eggs, size 24·5–25·3 mm × 22·5–23 mm ; incubation period 23 days. [5] When it was sold, a Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus moluccanus) was said to be 32 years old and still reproducing, but no further information was available on the bird. [8]
It takes all the colors of the rainbow for us to see it that way. It happens because of something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering, named after a British scientist who first ...
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