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The long-tailed parakeet (Psittacula longicauda) or Burung Bayan Nuri in Malay is a parakeet endemic to the regions of Andaman and Nicobar islands, Sumatra, Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia (including Singapore). It is allopatric with the congener, the Red-breasted parakeet, Psittacula alexandri, except in the Andaman islands where they occur ...
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Singapore.The avifauna of Singapore include a total of 450 species, 35 of which have been introduced by humans. [1]This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2023b edition. [2]
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The red-breasted parakeet is now placed in the genus Psittacula that was introduced in 1800 by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier. [4] [5] The genus name is a diminutive of the Latin word psittacus for a "parrot". The specific epithet alexandri is from Alexander the Great whose soldiers introduced parakeets to Greece. [6] Eight subspecies are ...
[2] [3] The name of the genus is a diminutive of the Latin word psittacus for a "parrot". [4] The genus includes 16 species, of which three are extinct. [5] †Newton's parakeet, Psittacula exsul - extinct (c.1875) Echo parakeet, Psittacula eques †Réunion parrot, Psittacula eques eques - extinct mid-18th century
Blossom-headed parakeet, Psittacula roseata – R; Malabar parakeet, Psittacula columboides – R; Layard's parakeet, Psittacula calthropae – r; Derbyan parakeet, Psittacula derbiana – r; Red-breasted parakeet, Psittacula alexandri – R; Nicobar parakeet, Psittacula caniceps – r; Long-tailed parakeet, Psittacula longicauda – N R
Lord Derby's parakeet: P. derbiana (Fraser, 1852) i NT: Southern China near the China/India and China/Myanmar border Red-breasted parakeet: P. alexandri (Linnaeus, 1758) i NT: Indochina (excluding central Thailand) and the Himalayas Nicobar parakeet: P. caniceps (Blyth, 1846) i NT: Nicobar Islands which is northwest of Sumatra Long-tailed parakeet
First described by French naturalist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1826, the superb parrot is one of three species in the genus Polytelis of long-tailed parrots. [4] Common names include superb parrot and, in avicultural circles, Barraband's parrot or parakeet, named after the artist Jacques Barraband who illustrated it for Francois Le Vaillant in 1801 [5] or green leek (although the last is ...