Niam-niam Parrot

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Niam-niam Parrot
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Tribe: Psittacini
Genus: Poicephalus
Species: P. crassus
Binomial name
Poicephalus crassus
(Sharpe, 1884)

The Niam-niam Parrot (Poicephalus crassus) is a parrot endemic in Central Africa (Cameroon to SW Sudan). It is a mostly green parrot with a brown head and a red iris. It lives in woodlands and is not known in captivity.

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