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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]
Extinct Norfolk kākā. An unidentified parakeet lived on Campbell Island, but was extinct by 1840, so had disappeared before it could be scientifically described. [4] The Chatham Island kākā (Nestor chathamensis) was extinct by 1550–1700, so is only described from sub-fossil remains, [5] and the Norfolk Island kākā (Nestor productus) was extinct by 1851.
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 ...
John James Audubon's 'Carolina Parakeets.' Wikimedia CommonsIt was winter in upstate New York in 1780 in a rural town called Schoharie, home to the deeply religious Palatine Germans. Suddenly, a ...
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 ...
The others are the thick-billed parrot, now extirpated, [3] and the green parakeet, still present in Texas; [4] a fourth parrot species, the red-crowned amazon, is debated. [5] [6] [7] It was called puzzi la née ("head of yellow") or pot pot chee by the Seminole and kelinky in Chickasaw. [8]