Little Lorikeet
Parvipsitta pusilla(Shaw, G, 1790)
English (US) Little Lorikeet
The Little Lorikeet (Parvipsitta pusilla) 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: eastern and southeastern Australia (Wet Tropics region, southern Queenslan, southward to southeastern South Australia)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Parvipsitta pusilla
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Little Lorikeet
- Described by
- (Shaw, G, 1790)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Psittacus Pusillus
- 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 appendix p.262, pl.48
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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