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Red-capped Parrot
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Red-capped Parrot
Purpureicephalus spurius
The red-capped parrot (Purpureicephalus spurius), also called the pileated parakeet (leading to easy confusion with the South American Pionopsitta pileata), and king parrot locally in Western Australia, is an Australian species of broad-tailed parrot related to the rosellas.
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Every page naming Purpureicephalus spurius in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 19192.