Bright Lorikeet

Bright Lorikeet
Shimmer Lorikeet ( Chalcopsitta sintillata )
Systematics
Class : Birds (aves) Order : Parrots (Psittaciformes) Family : True parrots (Psittacidae) Subfamily : Loris (Loriinae) Genre : Bright Lorikeet
Scientific name
Chalcopsitta
Bonaparte , 1850

The gloss loris ( Chalcopsitta ) are a genus of medium-sized and slender parrots . All four species are native to the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea . The name Chalcopsitta comes from the Greek, chalkos means "bronze-colored" and psitta means "parrot".

features

All four species of glossy lory are between 31 and 32 centimeters tall. They all have long tails and a piece of bared skin at the base of the lower mandible . The species show no sexual dimorphism . The young birds have duller plumage and clearly recognizable dark circles than the adult birds.

food

Their diet consists of fruits , nectar and pollen .

Internal system

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  Black Lorikeet

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  Brown Lorikeet

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  Shimmer Lorikeet

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  Cardinal Lory

The following species and subspecies belong to the genus of the glossy lory (Chalcopsitta):

• Black Lorikeet Chalcopsitta atra atra ( Scopoli , 1786)
  • C. atra bernsteini ( Rosenberg , 1861)
  • C. atra insignis ( Oustalet , 1878)
• Brown Lorikeet Chalcopsitta duivenbodei duivenbodei ( Dubois , 1884)
  • C. duivenbodei syringanuchalis ( Neumann , 1915)
• Shimmer Lorikeet Chalcopsitta sintillata sintillata ( Temminck , 1835)
  • C. sintillata chloroptera ( Salvadori , 1876)
  • C. sintillata rubifrons ( Gray , 1858)
• Cardinal Lorikeet Chalcopsitta cardinalis ( Gray , 1849)

source

literature

• Mike Parr and Tony Juniper (1998): Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World (Helm Identification Guides) , Yale University Press New Haven and London, ISBN 0-7136-6933-0
• James A. Jobling (1991): A Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names , Oxford University Press, p. 48, ISBN 0-19-854634-3

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