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Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
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- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Vini australis
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- Vini australis
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- Vini australis
- taxon common name
- lóri-de-coroa-azul
- short name
- V. australis
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Encyclopedic overview
The blue-crowned lorikeet (Vini australis), also known as the blue-crowned lory, blue-crested lory, Solomon lory or Samoan lory, is a parrot found throughout the Lau Islands (Fiji), Tonga, Samoa, Niue and adjacent islands, including: ʻAlofi, Fotuhaʻa, Fulago, Futuna, Haʻafeva, Niuafoʻou, Moce, Niue, Ofu, Olosega, Samoa, Savaiʻi, Tafahi, Taʻu, Tofua, Tonga, Tungua, ʻUiha, ʻUpolu, Varoa, Vavaʻu, and Voleva. It is a 19 centimetres (7.5 in) green lorikeet with a red throat, blue crown, and belly patch shading from red at the top to purple at the bottom.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blue-crowned Lorikeet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.