Pesquet's Parrot
Psittrichas fulgidus(Lesson, RP, 1830)
English (US) Pesquet's Parrot
The Pesquet's Parrot (Psittrichas fulgidus) 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: patchily distributed mountains of New GuineaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Psittrichas fulgidus
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Pesquet's Parrot
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP, 1830)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Banksianus fulgidus
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP, 1830)
- Type locality
- No locality = New Guinea.
- Original description
- Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique des ordres, sous-ordres, familles, tribus, genres, sous-genres et races d'oiseaux livr.3 p.181
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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