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Reunion Parakeet - BirdForum Opus

Revision as of 18:40, 17 July 2008 by Wintibird (talk | contribs)
Skull t.png The species Reunion Parakeet is extinct.
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Psittacula eques

Identification

Distribution

Extinct. Used to exists on Reunion Island.

Taxonomy

This was a monotypic species. It has often been treated as hypothetical or as conspecific with Mauritius Parakeet; the arguments for the treatment as a full and independent species is the paper by Hume (2007).

Habitat

Behaviour

References

Hume (2007) (only the abstract available for free).

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