Red-chinned lorikeet

Red-chinned lorikeet
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittaculidae
Genus: Vini
Species:
V. rubrigularis
Binomial name
Vini rubrigularis
(Sclater, PL, 1881)

The red-chinned lorikeet (Vini rubrigularis) is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae. It is native to New Britain, New Ireland, New Hannover and Karkar Island in Papua New Guinea.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2014). "Charmosyna rubrigularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2015.