Red-billed Hanging-parrot
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The Pygmy Hanging Parrot, Red-billed Hanging Parrot or Green Hanging Parrot (Loriculus exilis) is a tiny species of parrot
in the Psittacidae family.
It is endemic forest, mangrove and other wooded habitats on the Indonesia
n island of Sulawesi
. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is overall green with a red rump and a small red chin-spot bordered by blue (the red chin-spot and blue border is reduced in the female). It occurs together with the larger Great Hanging Parrot, but unlike that species the bill of the Pygmy Hanging Parrot is red.
Parrot
Parrots, also known as psittacines , are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three families: the Psittacidae , the Cacatuidae and the Strigopidae...
in the Psittacidae family.
It is endemic forest, mangrove and other wooded habitats on the Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
n island of Sulawesi
Sulawesi
Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands. In Indonesia, only Sumatra, Borneo, and Papua are larger in territory, and only Java and Sumatra have larger Indonesian populations.- Etymology :The Portuguese were the first to...
. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is overall green with a red rump and a small red chin-spot bordered by blue (the red chin-spot and blue border is reduced in the female). It occurs together with the larger Great Hanging Parrot, but unlike that species the bill of the Pygmy Hanging Parrot is red.