Blue-crowned Lorikeet
Vini australis(Gmelin, JF, 1788)
English (US) Blue-crowned Lorikeet
The Blue-crowned Lorikeet (Vini australis) 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: Wallis and Futuna Islands, southeastern Fiji (southern Lau Archipelago), Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, and Niue (western Polynesia)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Vini australis
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Blue-crowned Lorikeet
- Described by
- (Gmelin, JF, 1788)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Psittacus australis
- Described by
- (Gmelin, JF, 1788)
- Type locality
- Sandwich Islands, error = Samoa Islands.
- Original description
- Systema Naturae. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Cura Jo. Frid. Gmelin (etc.). Tomus I [pars I] p.329
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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