Antipodes Island parakeet (Cyanoramphus unicolor) Cyanoramphus unicolor at Wellington Zoo, Wellington, New Zealand..
English: Antipodes Island Parakeet
Photo credit: Peter Halasz. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pengo)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyanoramphus_unicolor,_Pengo.jpg
The Antipodes parakeet or Antipodes Island parakeet (Cyanoramphus unicolor) is endemic to the Antipodes Islands of New Zealand, one of two parrot species found on the islands, and one of only five ground-dwelling parrots in the world. They are long-living birds that may live up to 10 years of age, but the introduction of mice that compete for food with them is a threat to their survival on the Antipodes Islands.
Order: Psittaciformes
Superfamily: Psittacoidea
Family: Psittaculidae
Subfamily: Platycercinae
Tribe: Platycercini
Genus: Cyanoramphus
Species: Cyanoramphus unicolor (Lear, 1831)
