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Eclectus is a genus of parrot, the Psittaciformes, which consists of four known extant species known as eclectus parrots and the extinct Eclectus infectus, the oceanic eclectus parrot. The extant eclectus parrots are medium-sized parrots native to regions of Oceania , particularly New Guinea and Australia .
Several bird species have been recorded in Solomon Islands (the state, excluding areas of the wider Solomon Islands archipelago such as Bougainville Island which is part of the state of Papua New Guinea). The area's avifauna include a total of 321 species, of which 76 are endemic, and three have been introduced by humans. Of these, 28 species ...
The Papuan eclectus, [2] red-sided eclectus, or New Guinea eclectus [3] (Eclectus polychloros) is a parrot species which is native to New Guinea. Larger than the Moluccan eclectus, the green plumage of the male only has a slight yellow tinge and the tail is tipped with a half-inch yellow band. The central tail feathers are green and lateral ...
Houses on East Rennell island. East Rennell is the southern portion of Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands which is designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Rennell is the largest raised coral atoll in the world and the area in East Rennell surrounding Lake Tegano contains many endemic species.
Solomon Islands, [7] also known simply as The Solomons, [8] is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, ...
The Solomon Islands archipelago consists of over 1,000 islands, ranging from low-lying coral atolls to mountainous volcanic islands, including many volcanoes with varying degrees of activity. Bougainville Island is the largest in the archipelago, with an area of 9,300 km 2 (3591 sq miles).
The Solomon Archipelago is a terrestrial ecoregion and marine ecoregion in the Pacific Ocean.It includes the tropical ocean waters surrounding most of the Solomon Islands archipelago (excluding the Santa Cruz Islands, which is a part of the Vanuatu marine ecoregion with the forests being part of the Vanuatu rain forests ecoregion), and includes Bougainville Island and Buka Island of Papua New ...
He had lost his feathers and was naked for much of his life. [132] A palm cockatoo was reported to have reached 80 or 90 years of age in an Australian zoo, [ 46 ] and a little corella that was removed from a nest in central Australia in 1904 was reported still alive in the late 1970s. [ 78 ]