Macquarie parakeet

Macquarie parakeet
Temporal range: Late Holocene

Extinct (1891)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittaculidae
Genus: Cyanoramphus
Species:
C. novaezelandiae
Subspecies:
†C. n. erythrotis
Trinomial name
†Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae erythrotis
(Wagler, 1832)
Synonyms
  • Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae erythrotis

The Macquarie parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae erythrotis), also known as the Macquarie Island parakeet, is an extinct subspecies of the red-crowned parakeet from the subantarctic Macquarie Island, an outlying part of Tasmania, Australia, in the Southern Ocean.

  1. ^ BirdLife International. 2018. Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T22727981A132031270. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22727981A132031270.en. Accessed on 19 April 2023.