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The red-crowned parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae), also known as red-fronted parakeet and by its Māori name of kākāriki, [3] is a small parrot from New Zealand. It is characterised by its bright green plumage and the red pattern on its head. This versatile bird can feed on a variety food items and can be found in many habitat types.
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 parakeet. Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae (Sparrman, 1787)
The orange-fronted parakeet is highly endangered, with less than 200 individuals remaining in the North Canterbury region of the South Island. Furthermore, Chatham Island's yellow-crowned parakeet and the red-crowned populations of New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, and the subantarctic islands have been determined to be distinct species. [4]
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 ...
Red-crowned parrots, whose home range is restricted to the lowlands of northeast Mexico, were first recorded in the Los Angeles area in 1963. Since then, the population has swelled to more than ...
The Macquarie parakeet is considered to be a subspecies of the red-crowned parakeet C. novaezelandiae, which it resembled in appearance. [2] In the past is has been lumped with Reischek's parakeet from the Antipodes Islands in a 2001 paper by Wee Ming Boon and others following an examination of the molecular systematics of the genus which found that many of the red-crowned parakeet subspecies ...
Golden-capped parakeet; Duchess lorikeet; Meek's lorikeet; Striated lorikeet; Comoro parrot; Yellow-crowned parakeet; Red-crowned parakeet; Blue-streaked lory; Blue-eared lory; Olive-throated parakeet; Mexican parrotlet; Sangihe hanging parrot; Pygmy hanging parrot; Yellow-throated hanging parrot; Bismarck hanging parrot; White-naped lory ...
Reasons for the species' rarity are unknown. There seems to have been a marked decline in the numbers of two of the other three parrots native to New Caledonia (the New Caledonian red-crowned parakeet and the horned parakeet. Deplanche's lorikeet is still common), also for unknown reasons. New Caledonian bird populations decline wherever ...