Brown Lory

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Brown Lory
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Superfamily: Psittacoidea
Family: Psittaculidae
Subfamily: Loriinae
Tribe: Loriini
Genus: Chalcopsitta
Species: C. duivenbodei
Binomial name
Chalcopsitta duivenbodei
(Dubois, 1884)

The Brown Lory (Chalcopsitta duivenbodei), also called Duyvenbode's Lory, is a species of parrot in the Psittaculidae family. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

Taxonomy

The Brown Lory species contains two subspecies:[2]

Chalcopsitta duivenbodei Dubois 1884

  • Chalcopsitta duivenbodei duivenbodei Dubois, 1884
  • Chalcopsitta duivenbodei syringanuchalis Neumann, 1915
Jurong Bird park

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