The large fig parrot (''Psittaculirostris desmarestii''), also known as flame-headed fig parrot and Desmarest's fig parrot, is a species of
parrot
Parrots, also known as psittacines (), are birds of the roughly 398 species in 92 genera comprising the order Psittaciformes (), found mostly in tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three superfamilies: the Psittaco ...
in the family
Psittaculidae
Psittaculidae is a family containing Old World parrots. It consists of five subfamilies: Agapornithinae, Loriinae, Platycercinae
Platycercinae is a subfamily of birds belonging to the family Psittaculidae that inhabit Oceania. It consists of ...
.
It is found in the West Papuan Islands,
Indonesia
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and in southern and western
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...
(Indonesia and Papua New Guinea).
[Forshaw (2006). plate 28.]
Description
It has a red to orange cap, a light blue eye patch below its eye, yellow face, pale turquoise ring tinged with red, grey-black bill and green body. Male and female adults are identical in external appearance and juveniles tend to have duller colours on the head, but otherwise resemble adults.
Habitat
Its natural
habitat
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s are
subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Description
TSMF is generally found in large, disco ...
, subtropical or tropical
mangrove forest, and subtropical or tropical moist
montane forest
Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is a crucia ...
.
Subspecies
It has these subspecies:
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* ''P. desmarestii''
** ''P. d. blythii''
** ''P. d. cervicalis''
** ''P. d. desmarestii''
** ''P. d. godmani''
** ''P. d. intermedia''
** ''P. d. occidentalis''
References
World Parrot Trust
Parrot Encyclopedia - Species Profile
Cited texts
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Birds of Western New Guinea
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Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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