Long-tailed parakeet

Long-tailed parakeet
Feeding in Queenstown, Singapore
(the male is in the foreground)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Superfamily: Psittacoidea
Family: Psittaculidae
Subfamily: Psittaculinae
Tribe: Psittaculini
Genus: Psittacula
Species: P. longicauda
Binomial name
Psittacula longicauda
(Boddaert, 1783)

The long-tailed parakeet (Psittacula longicauda) is a parakeet endemic to the regions of Andaman islands, Nicobar islands, Sumatra, Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia (including Singapore). It is allopatric with the congener, the Red-breasted parakeet, Psittacula alexandri, except in the Andaman islands where they occur together.

Description

It is mainly green with a long blue tail. The male has a black cap and red face. The female lacks the black cap and has less red.

Subspecies

It has 5 subspecies which may represent different species.

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