red-fronted parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae) Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae
English: A Red-crowned Parakeet at Nga Manu Nature Reserve, Waikanae, New Zealand.
Date 14 November 2010, 00:16
Source Kākāriki
Author Sid Mosdell from New Zealand http://www.flickr.com/photos/22357152@N02
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyanoramphus_novaezelandiae_-Nga_Manu_Nature_Reserve,_Waikanae,_New_Zealand-8.jpg
The red-crowned parakeet or red-fronted parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae), also widely known by its Māori name of kākāriki, is a small parrot from New Zealand. It is characterised by its bright green plumage and the red pattern on its head.
Order: Psittaciformes
Superfamily: Psittacoidea
Family: Psittaculidae
Subfamily: Platycercinae
Tribe: Platycercini
Genus: Cyanoramphus
Species: Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae (Sparrman, 1787)
Synonyms:
Cyanoramphus cookii (Gray, 1859)
Cyanoramphus saisseti (Verreaux & Des Murs, 1860)
