Dusky lory
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| phylum | Chordata | The dusky lory is short-tailed parrot about 25 cm (10 in) long. It is mainly brown and has a whitish back and rump. It has two colour phases; the band across the upper chest together with its abdomen are either yellow or orange. Its native range includes New Guinea below about 2500m in both the Indonesian (West Papua), and Papua New Guinean zones of the island. It is also native to the nearby Indonesian islands of Salawati and Yapen.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to true parrots |
| clade | Diapsida | |
| Class | Aves | |
| order | Psittaciformes | |
| family | Psittaculidae | |
| genus | Pseudeos | |
| species | P. fuscata |
