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Alternative names: Rajah Lory and Red-quilled Lory

Chalcopsitta atra

[edit] Identification

30cm

• Blackish body
• Black bill
• Dark grey feet
• Long rounded tail
• Yellow and red undertail
  

Sexes are similar

[edit] Distribution

Western New Guinea and surrounding islands, Indonesia.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 3 subspecies.

• C. a. bernsteini:

• Misool Island (off western New Guinea)

• C. a. atra:

• Western New Guinea (western Vogelkop Peninsula), Batanta and Salawati islands

• C. a. insignis:

• Western New Guinea (eastern Vogelkop and Onin Peninsula) and Amberpon Island

A fourth subspecies spectabilis is generally considered invalid.^[2]

[edit] Habitat

Open habitat and lowland forests, coastal savanna and mangroves.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes flowers, nectar, pollen, fruits, insects and insect larvae.

[edit] Breeding

The 2 white eggs are incubated for 24-25 days; the young fledge about 10 weeks later.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Wikipedia

• List of references

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