Blue-winged Parakeet
Psittacula columboides(Vigors, NA, 1830)
English (US) Blue-winged Parakeet
The Blue-winged Parakeet (Psittacula columboides) 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: southwestern India (Western Ghats)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Psittacula columboides
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Blue-winged Parakeet
- Described by
- (Vigors, NA, 1830)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Palaeornis columboides
- Described by
- (Vigors, NA, 1830)
- Type locality
- No locality; Aneichardi, Travancore, designated by Stuart Baker, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 28, 1922, p. 332.
- Original description
- The Zoological Journal 5, no.18 p.274
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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