Pygmy Hanging Parrot

Pygmy Hanging Parrot
Pygmy Hanging Parrot
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Loriculus
Species: L. exilis
Binomial name
Loriculus exilis
Schlegel, 1866

The Pygmy Hanging Parrot, Red-billed Hanging Parrot or Green Hanging Parrot (Loriculus exilis) is a tiny species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It is endemic forest, mangrove and other wooded habitats on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is overall green with a red rump and a small red chin-spot bordered by blue (the red chin-spot and blue border is reduced in the female). It occurs together with the larger Great Hanging Parrot, but unlike that species the bill of the Pygmy Hanging Parrot is red.

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