• Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.

    Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

Camiguin Hanging Parrot - BirdForum Opus

Page Discussion
View source History
Loriculus camiguinensis

Identification

14cm

  • Green plumage
  • Yellow-green breast and abdomen
  • Red forehead, crown, lower back and upper tail coverts
  • Orange/red nape band
  • Blue cheeks, greater underwing coverts and undertail
  • Orange bill
  • Grey-brown iris

Female: less blue on cheeks.

Distribution

Endemic to Camiguin, Philippines.

Taxonomy

A recently described species. Monotypic.

Habitat

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes nectar, seeds, soft fruit, berries and blossoms.

Breeding

They nest in holes in dead tree-ferns.

Vocalisation

Call: a quickly repeated tziit-tziit-tziit.

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
  2. World Parrot Trust
  3. Oriental Bird Club

Recommended Citation

External Links

GSearch checked for 2020 platform.

Retrieved from ‘https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/index.php?title=Camiguin_Hanging_Parrot&oldid=257833’
Back
Top