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Cyanoramphus unicolor

[edit] Identification

31cm.
Emerald green upper body, yellow green under-parts, blue wing coverts.
Sexes similar.

[edit] Distribution

Antipodes Islands (part of New Zealand).

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Tussock grassland.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes poa tussock, seeds, flowers, berries and carrion from penguins and gulls.

[edit] Breeding

It nests in a well drained burrow up to 1 metre deep into the fibrous peat beneath the tussock vegetation. 2 eggs are laid.

[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.

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[edit] External Links

• View more images of this species on the ABID