Yellow-crowned Parakeet

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Yellow-crowned Parakeet
In captivity
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Cyanoramphus
Species: C. auriceps
Binomial name
Cyanoramphus auriceps
(Kuhl, 1820)

The Yellow-crowned Parakeet, Cyanoramphus auriceps, is a species of parakeet endemic to the islands of New Zealand. The species is found across the main three islands of New Zealand, North Island, South Island and Stewart Island/Rakiura, as well as on the subantarctic Auckland Islands. It has declined due to predation from introduced species such as stoats, although unlike the Red-fronted Parakeet it has not been extirpated from the mainland of New Zealand.

[edit] References

  • Elliott G, Dilk P & O'Donnel C (1996) "The ecology of yellow-crowned parakeets (Cyanoramphus auriceps) in Nothofagus forest in Fiordland, New Zealand" New Zealand Journal of Zoology 23: 249-265 [1]
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