Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot
Loriculus galgulus(Linnaeus, C, 1758)
English (US) Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot
The Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot (Loriculus galgulus) 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: southern Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and adjacent islandsRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Loriculus galgulus
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Psittacus Galgulus
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1758)
- Type locality
- India, i.e. Malacca.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1 p.103
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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