黑額鸚鵡

分类位置

同属物种

安蒂波德斯长尾小鹦鹉

Antipodes Parakeet

查島鸚鵡

Chatham Islands Parakeet

橙額鸚鵡

Malherbe's Parakeet

新加里東紅額鸚鵡

New Caledonian Parakeet

紅額長尾鸚鵡

Norfolk/Lord Howe Parakeet

社會島鸚鵡

Raiatea Parakeet

形态与习性

The black-fronted parakeet or Tahiti parakeet (Cyanoramphus zealandicus) is an extinct species of parrot endemic to the Pacific island of Tahiti. Its native name was simply 'ā'ā ("parrot") according to Latham (1790) though White (1887) gives "aa-maha". It was discovered on James Cook's first voyage in 1769, on which the two specimens now in Liverpool and the one in the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring appear to have been collected. Two of them - one of those in Liverpool and the Trin