Large fig parrot
Species of bird
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The large fig parrot (Cyclopsitta desmarestii), also known as flame-headed fig parrot and Desmarest's fig parrot, is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae. It is found in the West Papuan Islands, Indonesia and in southern and western New Guinea (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea).[2]
| Large fig parrot | |
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| Psittaculirostris desmarestii occidentalis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittaculidae |
| Genus: | Cyclopsitta |
| Species: | C. desmarestii |
| Binomial name | |
| Cyclopsitta desmarestii (Desmarest, 1826) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Psittaculirostris desmarestii | |
Description
It has a red to orange cap, a light blue eye patch below its eye, yellow face, pale turquoise ring tinged with red, grey-black bill and green body. Male and female adults are identical in external appearance and juveniles tend to have duller colours on the head, but otherwise resemble adults.[2]
Habitat
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Subspecies
Five subspecies are recognised:[3]
- C. d. blythii Wallace, AR, 1864 – Misool (Raja Ampat Islands, off western New Guinea)
- C. d. occidentalis (Salvadori, AT, 1876) – Salawati and Batanta Islands, western Bird's Head Peninsula, and Onin Peninsula (northwestern New Guinea)
- C. d. desmarestii (Desmarest, A-G, 1826) – western New Guinea (eastern regions of Bird's Head Peninsula)
- C. d. godmani (Ogilvie-Grant, WR, 1911) – southern lowlands of western and central New Guinea (Mimika River to Fly River)
- C. d. cervicalis (Salvadori, AT & d'Albertis, LM, 1876) – southeastern New Guinea (Fly River to far eastern Papua New Guinea)
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