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Encyclopedia > Antipodes Parakeet
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Antipodes Island Parakeet

A parakeet in Wellington Zoo's breeding program
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Subfamily: Platycercinae
Tribe: Platycercini
Genus: Cyanoramphus
Species: C. unicolor
Binomial name
Cyanoramphus unicolor
(Lear, 1831)

The Antipodes Island Parakeet (Cyanoramphus unicolor) is endemic to the Antipodes Islands, one of two parrot species found on the islands. It is the largest species in the genus Cyanoramphus. The parakeets eat leaves, buds, grass, and tussock stalks, as well as sometimes feeding on seeds, flowers, and will scavenge dead seabirds. The Antipodes Island Parakeet also preys on Grey-backed Storm-petrels. It will enter burrows to kill incubating adults, even dig at the entrance if it is too small. The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. ... Image File history File links Status_iucn3. ... This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. ... The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List and Red Data List), created in 1963, is the worlds most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species and can be found here. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... Digimon, the only known animals. ... Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ... “Aves” redirects here. ... Families Cacatuidae Psittacidae The order Psittaciformes (Parrots) includes about 353 species of bird which are generally grouped into two families: the Cacatuidae or cockatoos, and the Psittacidae or true parrots. ... For the runtime engine for Perl 6, see Parrot virtual machine. ... A broad-tailed parrot is any of about 35 species belonging to the subfamily Platycercinae. ... A broad-tailed parrot is any of about 35 species belonging to the subfamily Platycercinae. ... Binomial names Cyanoramphus auriceps (Kuhl, 1820) Cyanoramphus malherbi (Souance, 1857) Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae (Sparrman, 1787) Kakariki or New Zealand Parakeets are three species of parakeet in the genus Cyanoramphus, family Psittacidae. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Edward Lear, 1812-1888 Eagle Owl, Edward Lear, 1837 Another Edward Lear owl, in his more familiar style Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an artist, illustrator and writer known for his nonsensical poetry and his limericks, a form which he popularised. ... The position of the Antipodes Islands relative to New Zealand, and other outlying islands. ... For other uses of the word, please see Genus (disambiguation). ... Binomial names Cyanoramphus auriceps (Kuhl, 1820) Cyanoramphus malherbi (Souance, 1857) Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae (Sparrman, 1787) Kakariki or New Zealand Parakeets are three species of parakeet in the genus Cyanoramphus, family Psittacidae. ... Seabirds are birds that spend much of their lives, outside the breeding season at least, at sea. ... [[Image:Hawk eating prey. ...


References

  • Greene, T. (1999) "Aspects of the ecology of Antipodes Island Parakeet ( Cyanoramphus unicolor) and Reischek's Parakeet ( C. novaezelandiae hochstetten) on Antipodes Island, October - November 1995" Notornis 46: 301-310 [1]
  1. ^ BirdLife International (2004). Cyanoramphus unicolor. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is vulnerable and the criteria used.

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List and Red Data List), created in 1963, is the worlds most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species and can be found here. ... The World Conservation Union or International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is an international organization dedicated to natural resource conservation. ...

External link

  • ARKive - images and movies of the Antipodes island parakeet (Cyanoramphus unicolor)

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Antipodes (1428 words)
For obvious reasons, this parakeet is also known as the Green or Uniform Parakeet owing to it's all green colour and the lack of a coloured frontal band which is typical of all other members of the cyanoramphus family.
This parakeet lives in one of the most inhospitable places on earth - the Antipodes Island which is situated approximately 770 kilometres south-east of New Zealand at a latitude of 50 degrees south - arguably the most southern parrot on earth, along with it's cousin on the island, the Antipodes Red-Crowned Kakariki.
The Antipodes Parakeet is not a common parrot in captivity.
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Antipodes Island is only 62 sq km in area, but contains a large colony of these Parakeets and surprisingly also supports a second Kakariki known as Reischek's Parakeet, a sub-species of the Red-crowned Parakeet.
There is one area where these Parakeets appear to avoid direct competition; the larger Antipodes Island Parakeet supplements its vegetarian diet by scavenging on carcasses and eggs of penguins, these birds breeding in large numbers on the islands.
The nominate Yellow-crowned Parakeet shares most of its range with the mainland Red-crowned Parakeet form, being found on the main islands and mot off-shore islands, and as far south as the Auckland Island group.
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