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Black-fronted Parakeet
Plate 1 of 2. George Forster, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · via iNaturalist
IUCN EX · Extinct

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Black-fronted Parakeet

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Black-fronted Parakeet

Cyanoramphus zealandicus

The extinct black-fronted parakeet or Tahiti parakeet (Cyanoramphus zealandicus) was endemic to the Pacific island of Tahiti. Its native name was simply ’ā’ā ("parrot") according to Latham (1790) though White (1887) gives "aa-maha".

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 18926.