Swift Parrot
Lathamus discolor(Shaw, G, 1790)
English (US) Swift Parrot
The Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Psittaculidae (Old World Parrots) in the order Psittaciformes.
Range: breeds Tasmania; winters southeastern South Australia to southeastern QueenslandRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Lathamus discolor
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Critically Endangered
- English (US)
- Swift Parrot
- Described by
- (Shaw, G, 1790)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Psittacus Discolor
- Described by
- (Shaw, G, 1790)
- Type locality
- New South Wales.
- Original description
- Journal of a Voyage to new South Wales with Sixty-five plates of Non-descript Animals, Birds, Lizards, Serpents, curious Cones of Trees and other Natural Productions pl.49
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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