Long-tailed Parakeet
Psittacula longicauda
Medium-sized green parakeet with red cheeks and black stripes above the eye and below the cheek. Male is brighter-colored than the female, which has less extensive red on the cheeks and a black instead of red bill. Like other forest parakeets, usually encountered shooting past overhead while screaming raucously. Long filamentous tail feathers not always present.
识别特征
It is mainly green with a long blue tail. The male has a black cap and red face. The female lacks the black cap and has less red.
分类信息
The long-tailed parakeet was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Psittacus longicauda in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The type locality is Malacca on the southern region of the Malay Peninsula. The long-tailed parakeet is now placed in the genus Psittacula that was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1800. The name of the genus is a diminutive of the Latin word psittacus for a "parrot". The specific epithet longicauda combines the Latin longus meaning "long" and cauda meaning "tail".<p>Five subspecies are currently recognized:
- 学名
- Psittacula longicauda
- 命名信息
- (Boddaert, 1783)
- 目
- Psittaciformes
- 科
- Psittaculidae
- 属
- Psittacula
分布与栖息地
The long-tailed parakeet is able to live in a wide variety of habitats such as in swamp forests, lowland evergreen forest, oil palm plantations, coconut plantations, gardens, public parks, and is a frequent visitor to agricultural areas (especially those who yield tropical fruits and seeds). It is usually seen in elevations of up to 300 meters.
- 迁徙
- Nomadic movement
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- declining
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其他鸟类
Yellow-billed Lorikeet
Neopsittacus musschenbroekii
A medium-sized, long-tailed parrot of mid-montane forest and edge. Predominantly green with a bright red patch from the chest, where it is broadest, to the belly. Yellow bill and lime green streaks radiating from the eye. Readily seen flying in small flocks. Similar to Orange-billed Lorikeet, but Yellow-billed Lorikeet is usually found at lower elevations, is slightly larger with an obviously yellow bill and reddish undertail. Call, a shrill, high-pitch “siiik!”.
Quail-plover
Ortyxelos meiffrenii
A strange long-legged buttonquail that resembles a hybrid between gamebird and shorebird – hence its name. If seen well, the brown-and-cream-scalloped upperparts, the pale-yellow bill and legs, and the off-white eyebrow, belly, and wing edge are distinctive. Most typically seen when disturbed, either running at high speed when it could be mistaken for a lark, or in flight when the bold black-and-white wing pattern and fluttering zig-zag flight render it unmistakable. Scarce and local, with movements poorly understood; found in open grassland and grassy shrubland. Mostly silent, but a low whistle has been described.
Cherry-throated Tanager
Nemosia rourei
Striking, fairly small tanager with a black-and-gray back and white underparts contrasting with a bright red throat. Note the yellow eyes. Inhabits the canopy of humid forest, where it forages in bromeliads and usually accompanies mixed-species flocks. Has a sharp nasal call: “péuuu, péuuu-see’ee.” Extremely rare, known from only a few forest patches.
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