Guadeloupe Parakeet
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Guadeloupe Parakeet ( Psittacara labati ) |
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The Guadeloupe parakeet ( Psittacara labati , Syn . : Aratinga labati ), also known as the Labat parakeet , is an extinct small parrot whose existence is only based on travel stories by Jean-Baptiste Labat , Griffith Hughes and Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre . Labat, after whom the species was named, wrote in his work Nouveau Voyage aux isles l'Amérique in 1722 : “The parakeets of Guadeloupe are the size of a blackbird. They are completely green, apart from a few red feathers on the head ”. In 1667 Du Tertre mentioned in his work Histoîre générale des Antilles habitées par les François a macaw, an Amazon parrot and a parakeet. The parakeet was described as the size of a magpie and completely green. The Guadeloupe parakeet died out in the 18th century.
The systematic classification of the species is difficult. The bird has been assigned to different genera: Eupsittula , Aratinga and finally Psittacara
literature
- Charles A. Woods, Florence E. Sergile: Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives. ( online ).
- David Day: The Doomsday Book of Animals. Ebury Press, London 1981, ISBN 0-670-27987-0 .
- James Greenway: Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World. Dover Publications Inc. New York 1967, ISBN 0-486-21869-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Psittacara labati in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018.2. Listed by: BirdLife International, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2019.