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Yellow-crowned Parakeet

Yellow-crowned parakeet on Ulva Island
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Psittaciformes
Family:Psittacidae
Genus:Cyanoramphus
Species:C. auriceps
Binomial name
Cyanoramphus auriceps
(Kuhl, 1820)
The Yellow-crowned Parakeet, Cyanoramphus auriceps, is a species of parakeet endemic to the islands of New Zealand. The species is found across the main three islands of New Zealand, North Island, South Island and Stewart Island, as well as on the subantarctic Auckland Islands. It has declined due to predation from introduced species such as Stoats, although unlike the Red-crowned Parakeet it has not been extirpated from the mainland of New Zealand.

References

Elliott G, Dilk P & O'Donnel C (1996) "The ecology of yellow-crowned parakeets (Cyanoramphus auriceps) in Nothofagus forest in Fiordland, New Zealand" New Zealand Journal of Zoology 23: 249-265 [1]
conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. Many factors are taken into account when assessing the conservation status of a species: not simply the number remaining, but the
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Near Threatened (NT) is a conservation status assigned to species or lower taxa which may be considered threatened with extinction in the near future, although it does not currently qualify for the threatened status.
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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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Cyanoramphus
Bonaparte, 1854

Species

Cyanoramphus auriceps
Cyanoramphus erythrotis
Cyanoramphus malherbi
Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae
Cyanoramphus saisetti
Cyanoramphus ulietanus
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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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Heinrich Kuhl (September 17, 1797 - September 14, 1821) was a German zoologist.

Kuhl was born in Hanau. He became assistant to Coenraad Jacob Temminck at Leiden museum. In 1817 he published a monograph on bats and in 1819 he published Conspectus psittacorum.
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parakeet is a term for any one of a large number of unrelated small parrot species. It is mainly used instead of Conure for small long-tailed members of the Arini in the Americas, and in Australia colloquially for many species.
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endemic, it is unique to its own place or region; it is found only there, and not found naturally anywhere else. The place must be a discrete geographical unit, often an island or island group, but sometimes a country, habitat type, or other defined area or zone.
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Anthem
"God Defend New Zealand"
"God Save the Queen" 1


Capital Wellington

Largest city Auckland
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Geography
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Highest point
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South Island<nowiki />

Satellite view of South Island

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Stewart Island/Rakiura is the third-largest island of New Zealand. It lies 30 km south of the South Island, across Foveaux Strait. Its permanent population is slightly fewer than 400 people, most of whom live in the settlement of Oban.
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Auckland Islands
Native name: Motu Maha<nowiki />

Topographical map of the Auckland Islands

Geography
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Location Southern Pacific Ocean
Coordinates
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introduced species (also known as naturalized species or exotic species) is an organism that is not indigenous to a given place or area and instead has been accidentally or deliberately transported to this new location by human activity.
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M. erminea

Binomial name
Mustela erminea
Linnaeus, 1758

Range map


The stoat (Mustela erminea) is a small mammal of the family Mustelidae.
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C. novaezelandiae

Binomial name
Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae
(Sparrman, 1787)

Not to be confused with the Red-crowned Parakeet (Pyrrhura roseifrons) from South America.

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