Blue-naped parrot explained

The blue-naped parrot (Tanygnathus lucionensis), also known as the blue-crowned green parrot, Luzon parrot, the Philippine green parrot, and locally known as pikoy, is a parrot found throughout the Philippines.

Taxonomy

In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the blue-naped parrot in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. He used the French name Le perroquet de l'Isle de Luçon and the Latin name Psittacus lucionensis.[1] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.[2] When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson.[2] One of these was the blue-naped parrot. Linnaeus included a terse description, used the binomial name Psittacus lucionensis and cited Brisson's work.[3] The specific name lucionensis is from Luzon in the Philippines.[4] This species is now placed in the genus Tanygnathus which was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Wagler in 1832.[5]

There are four subspecies:[6]

Description

This is a medium size parrot, around in length, primarily green except for a light blue rear crown and nape, pale blue lower back and rump, scalloped shoulders with orange-brown on black coverts, and blackish underwings with green underwing coverts.[7]

Distribution and ecology

The species is widespread throughout the Philippines, including the Talaud Islands and islands off north and east Borneo (with introduced population in Borneo itself, e.g. Kota Kinabalu). It is found in secondary forest, at forest edges and in plantations at elevations of up to 1000 m. Flock size is usually under a dozen. The blue-naped parrot feeds on mangoes, berries, seeds, nuts and grains. It nests in tree holes.

Conservation

Habitat loss and trapping have made this species scarce on most islands except Mindoro and Palawan. The Katala Foundation has raised concerns over the increasing illegal trade of this bird on Palawan.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Brisson, Mathurin Jacques . Mathurin Jacques Brisson . 1760 . Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés . 4 . fr, la . Paris . Jean-Baptiste Bauche . 295–297, Plate 22 fig 2 . The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen.
  2. Allen . J.A. . Joel Asaph Allen . 1910 . Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 28 . 317–335 . 2246/678 .
  3. Book: Linnaeus, Carl . Carl Linnaeus . 1766 . Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis . 12th . 1, Part 1 . Laurentii Salvii . Holmiae (Stockholm) . la . 146 .
  4. Web site: Jobling . J.A. . 2018 . Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions . 2 April 2018 .
  5. Wagler . Johann Georg . Johann Georg Wagler . 1832 . Monographia Psittacorum . la . Abhandlungen der mathematisch-physikalischen Classe, Königlich-Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften . 1 . 463–750 [501] .
  6. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . 2018 . Parrots, cockatoos . World Bird List Version 8.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 4 April 2018 .
  7. Book: Juniper. T.. Parr. M.. 1998. Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World. Yale University Press. New Haven and London. 0-300-07453-0.
  8. Web site: Mongabay. 17 September 2008. Palawan's wildlife faces extinction risk due to mining, pet trade.

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