Ornate lorikeet
{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Ornate lorikeet
| image = Trichoglossus ornatus -Nashville Zoo-8a-4c.jpg
| image_caption = At Nashville Zoo, USA
| image_upright = 1.2
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Saudareos
| species = ornata
| authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)
| synonyms = Psittacus ornatus {{small|Linnaeus, 1758}}
Saudareos ornatus ({{small|Linnaeus, 1758}})
}}
The ornate lorikeet (Saudareos ornata), sometimes named the ornate lory, is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae. It is endemic to the Sulawesi archipelago in Indonesia.Coates, B. J., & K. D. Bishop (1997). A Guide to the Birds of Wallacea. Dove Publications Pty. Ltd. {{ISBN|0-9590257-3-1}} It is found in forest, woodland, mangrove and plantations, and is locally common.
Taxonomy
The ornate lorikeet was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Psittacus ornatus.{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | pages=98–99 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727005 }} Linnaeus based his description of the "Lory Parrakeet" that had been described and illustrated in 1751 by George Edwards in his "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds".{{ cite book | last=Edwards | first=George | author-link=George Edwards (naturalist) | year=1751 | title=A Natural History of Uncommon Birds | location=London | publisher=Printed for the author at the College of Physicians | volume=Part IV | page=174 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50196416 }} Linnaeus mistakenly specified the location as "America" although Edwards had stated that the bird had come from the "East Indies" (actually the Indonesian island of Sulawesi).{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1937 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=3 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=148 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14477863 }}
The ornate lorikeet was formerly placed in the genus Trichoglossus but was moved to a newly introduced genus Saudareos based on the results of a molecular genetic analysis of the lorikeets published in 2020.{{Cite journal | last1=Joseph | first1=L. | last2=Merwin | first2=J. | last3=Smith | first3=B.T. | date=2020 | title=Improved systematics of lorikeets reflects their evolutionary history and frames conservation priorities | journal=Emu – Austral Ornithology | volume=120 | issue=3 | pages=201–215 | doi=10.1080/01584197.2020.1779596| s2cid=222094508 }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Parrots, cockatoos | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/parrots/| publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=23 July 2021 }}
Description
File:Trichoglossus ornatus -upper body -Nashville Zoo-8a.jpg
The ornate lorikeet is a mainly green parrot about 25 cm (10.0 in) long. Its head above its eyes is purple-blue and its face below its eyes is red. There is red at back of the head and yellow behind the eyes. It does not have a collar at the back of the neck that rainbow lorikeets have. Its chin to chest has transverse strips and bars of red and blue. Its abdomen is green with sparse variable yellow scalloping. The beak is orange-red, the irises are dark orange, the eye-ring is dark grey, and the legs are grey.{{Cite book|last=Forshaw|first=Joseph Michael|url=https://archive.org/details/parrotsofworldid0000fors|title=Parrots of the world : an identification guide|date=2006|publisher=Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-691-09251-5}} plate 13.
Behavior
The ornate lorikeet usually gathers in pairs or in small flocks, though large flocks have been observed. It may sometimes form mixed flocks with the yellow and green lorikeet.{{Cite book|last=Forshaw|first=Joseph Michael|url=https://archive.org/details/parrotsofworldid0000fors|title=Parrots of the world : an identification guide|date=2006|publisher=Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-691-09251-5}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Trichoglossus ornatus}}
- [http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php?Bird_ID=486 Oriental Bird Images: Ornate Lorikeet] Selected photos
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Category:Endemic birds of Sulawesi