| Antipodes parakeet | |
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| A parakeet at Ringdove Bay on Antipodes Island. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittaculidae |
| Genus: | Cyanoramphus |
| Species: | C. unicolor
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| Binomial name | |
| Cyanoramphus unicolor (Lear, 1831)
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The Antipodes parakeet or Antipodes Island parakeet (Cyanoramphus unicolor) is a parrot in the family Psittaculidae that is endemic to the Antipodes Islands of New Zealand. It is one of two parrot species found on the islands, and one of only five ground-dwelling parrots in the world. They are long-living birds that may live up to 10 years of age, but the introduction of mice that compete with them for food was a threat to their survival on the Antipodes Islands until the mice were successfully eradicated from the Islands in 2016 (confirmed 2018).[3] Unusually for parrots, they sometimes prey upon other birds, a trait shared by another New Zealand parrot, the kea.
- ^ BirdLife International. (2022). "Cyanoramphus unicolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T22685162A213655486. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T22685162A213655486.en. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ^ S. Horn; T. Greene; G. Elliott. "Eradication of mice from Antipodes Island, New Zealand" (PDF). NZ Department of Conservation.