Red-capped Parrot

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Red-capped Parrot

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Subfamily: Platycercinae
Tribe: Platycercini
Genus: Purpureicephalus
Bonaparte, 1854
Species: P. spurius
Binomial name
Purpureicephalus spurius
(Kuhl, 1820)

The Red-capped Parrot (Purpureicephalus spurius), also called the King Parrot locally in Western Australia, is an Australian species of broad-tailed parrot related to the Rosellas.

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