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Papuan Hanging-Parrot
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Papuan Hanging-Parrot
Loriculus aurantiifrons
The orange-fronted hanging parrot or Papuan hanging parrot (Loriculus aurantiifrons) is a small species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae.
It is endemic to forest in New Guinea and adjacent smaller islands. It sometimes includes the Bismarck hanging parrot as a subspecies.
From the article Orange-fronted hanging parrot on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Individuals are 10 cm (4 in) and 14-16 g, and sexually dimorphic. Males and females are both mainly green in color, with males having a golden yellow forecrown, and females having a blue-green forecrown and blue-green cheeks. Both sexes have a red throat patch, red rump, and yellow on the sides of the rump.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 18968.