Waxbills (Estrildidae)
Blue-faced Parrotfinch (Erythrura trichroa) - HBW 15, p. 348
French: Diamant de Kittlitz
German: Dreifarben-Papageiamadine
Spanish: Diamante Cariazul
Other common names: Blue-faced/Australian Green-backed Finch, Blue-headed Parrotfinch
Taxonomy: Fringilla trichroa Kittlitz, 1833, Kosrae, Caroline Islands.
Sometimes placed with E. coloria and E. papuana in a separate genus, Trichroa. Has been thought possibly to form a superspecies with E. coloria and E. tricolor. Subspecific epithet cyanofrons sometimes spelt as "cyanifrons" or "cyaneifrons", but present spelling has priority. Proposed race macgillivrayi, described from NE Australia (Lloyd I, off NE Queensland), apparently indistinguishable in plumage or size from birds of this species in New Guinea; treated as synonymous with sigillifera. Ten subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- sanfordi Stresemann, 1931 - NC & SC Sulawesi.
- modesta Wallace, 1862 - N Moluccas (Halmahera, Ternate, Tidore, Bacan).
- pinaiae Stresemann, 1914 - S Moluccas (Buru, Seram).
- sanfordi Stresemann, 1931 - NC & SC Sulawesi.
- modesta Wallace, 1862 - N Moluccas (Halmahera, Ternate, Tidore, Bacan).
- pinaiae Stresemann, 1914 - S Moluccas (Buru, Seram).
- pelewensis Nagamichi Kuroda, 1922 - Palau Is.
- clara Takatsukasa & Yamashina, 1931 - Chuuk Is and Pohnpei Is, in E Caroline Is.
- trichroa ( Kittlitz, 1833) - Kosrae (extreme E Carolines).
- sigillifera ( De Vis, 1897) - New Guinea and some offshore islands (Manam I, Karkar I, D'Entrecasteaux Is and Louisiade Archipelago), Bismarck Archipelago (Umboi I, New Britain, New Ireland, Feni Is) and NE Australia (NE Queensland).
- eichhorni E. J. O. Hartert, 1924 - St Matthias Is (in N Bismarck Archipelago).
- woodfordi E. J. O. Hartert, 1900 - Bougainville I and Solomon Is (Kolombangara, Guadalcanal).
- cyanofrons E. L. Layard, 1878 - Vanuatu (including Banks Is) and Loyalty Is.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Adult bird feeding on seeds. Locality Julatten, Queensland, Australia
Eldert Groenewoud 22 July 2009 3 years ago 21 sec 3.6
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Adult bird on a branch.
Locality Vogelpark Walsrode, Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany
Tomasz Doroń 7 October 2009 3 years ago 3 -
Feeding on grass seed
Locality Julatten, Queensland, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 15 August 2009 2 years ago 2.9 -
A male foraging in the lower canopy of roadside forest.
Locality Lore Lindu National Park, Central Sulawesi, Sulawesi (ssp sanfordi)
David Beadle 27 October 2011 1 year ago 2.8
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