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Bourke's Parrot

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Psittaciformes
Family:Psittacidae
Subfamily:Platycercinae
Tribe:Neophemini
Genus:Neopsephotus
Mathews, 1912
Species:N. bourkii
Binomial name
Neopsephotus bourkii
(Gould, 1841)
The Bourke's Parrot (Neopsephotus bourkii), also known as the Bourke's Parakeet or "Bourkie", is a small parrot originating in Australia and the only species in its genus Neopsephotus. This species is sometimes placed in the genus Neophema and there is an ongoing discussion about the proper taxonomic placement of this species. It is a grass parrot approximately 19 cm long and weighing around 35 grams.

Wildtype (natural coloured) Bourke's Parakeet display a basically brown overall colouration with pink abdomen, pinkish breast & a blue rump. The legs are dark-brown, with zygodactyl toes. The bill is yellowish-brown. Adult males have blue brows while adult hens have white brows.

This bird is named after General Sir Richard Bourke, Governor of New South Wales from 1831 to 1837.

References

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Least Concern (LC) is an IUCN category assigned to extant species or lower taxa which have been evaluated but do not qualify for any other category. As such they do not qualify as threatened, nor Near Threatened, nor (prior to 2001) Conservation Dependent.
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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Psittaciformes
Wagler, 1830

Systematics

(but see below)

Family Cacatuidae (cockatoos)
  • Subfamily Microglossinae (Palm Cockatoo)
  • Subfamily Calyptorhynchinae (dark cockatoos)
  • Subfamily Cacatuinae (white cockatoos)

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Psittacidae
Illiger, 1811

Subfamily
Loriinae (lories and lorikeets)
Psittacinae (typical parrots and allies)

The true parrots are about 330 species of bird belonging to the Psittacidae
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Platycercini

Genera

Prosopeia
Eunymphicus
Cyanoramphus
Platycercus
Barnardius
Purpureicephalus
Lathamus
Northiella
Psephotus
Neopsephotus

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Neophemini

Genera

Neophema
Neopsephotus

The tribe Neophemini contains two genera, Neophema and Neopsephotus and belongs to the subfamily Platycercinae, or Broad-tailed parrots.
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Gregory Macalister Mathews CBE (10 September 1876 - 27 March 1949) was an Australian amateur ornithologist.

Mathews made his fortune in mining shares, and moved to England around 1900.
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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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John Gould (14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881) was an English ornithologist. The Gould League in Australia was named after him. His identification of Charles Darwin's finches was pivotal in the development of the theory of The Origin of Species.
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18th century - 19th century - 20th century
1810s  1820s  1830s  - 1840s -  1850s  1860s  1870s
1838 1839 1840 - 1841 - 1842 1843 1844

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Psittaciformes
Wagler, 1830

Systematics

(but see below)

Family Cacatuidae (cockatoos)
  • Subfamily Microglossinae (Palm Cockatoo)
  • Subfamily Calyptorhynchinae (dark cockatoos)
  • Subfamily Cacatuinae (white cockatoos)

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Anthem
Advance Australia Fair [1]


Capital Canberra

Largest city Sydney
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Neophema
Salvadori, 1891

Species
  • Neophema chrysostoma
  • Neophema elegans
  • Neophema petrophila
  • Neophema chrysogaster
  • Neophema pulchella
  • Neophema splendida

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In biology, dactyly is the arrangement of (fingers and toes) on the hands, feet, or sometimes wings of a tetrapod animal. It comes from the Greek word δακτυλος = "finger".

Sometimes the ending "-dactylia" is used.
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Sir Richard Bourke, KCB (Dublin, 4 May 1777 – 13 August 1855, Limerick) was Governor of the Colony of New South Wales, Australia between 1831 and 1837.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Bourke was educated at Westminster and studied law at Christ Church College, Oxford.
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), created in 1963, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species.
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IUCN

International Organization
Founded October 1948, Fontainebleau, France
Headquarters Rue Mauverney 28, 1196 Gland, Switzerland

Key people Mr Valli Moosa
Ms Julia Marton-Lefèvre
Industry Natural resource conservation
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