Niam-niam Parrot
Poicephalus crassus(Sharpe, RB, 1884)
English (US) Niam-niam Parrot
The Niam-niam Parrot (Poicephalus crassus) 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 Psittacidae (African and New World Parrots) in the order Psittaciformes.
Range: southwestern Chad, Central African Republic, far northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and far southwestern South SudanRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Poicephalus crassus
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Niam-niam Parrot
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1884)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Pionias crassus
- Described by
- (Sharpe, RB, 1884)
- Type locality
- Ndoruma, upper Uelle River.
- Original description
- The Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology 17 p.429
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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