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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 ...
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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 ]
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