Réunion parakeet (Psittacula eques eques)

Query: Parrot

Result: 1082^nd of 1360

Subject:	Réunion parakeet (Psittacula eques eques)
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Description
Type illustration of Psittacula eques eques (Martinet in Buffon, 1779).
Date 1779
Source http://julianhume.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Hume-Mascarene-Parrots.pdf
Author François-Nicolas Martinet (1739–1797) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Nicolas_Martinet
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P._eques.jpg

The Réunion parakeet (Psittacula eques eques) was a little-known parakeet, extinct from about 1770, which formerly inhabited Réunion Island in the western Indian Ocean. It was similar to the echo parakeet of Mauritius. The two may either be distinct subspecies of the same species or the same taxon.

Parrot
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