Parrots (Psittacidae)
Brown-headed Parrot (Poicephalus cryptoxanthus) - HBW 4, p. 415
French: Perroquet à tête brune
German: Braunkopfpapagei
Spanish: Lorito Cabecipardo
Taxonomy: Psittacus (Poiocephalus) [sic] cryptoxanthus W. K. H. Peters, 1854, Inhambane, Mozambique.
Forms superspecies with P. meyeri, P. rueppellii and P. crassus, and possibly others. Believed to hybridize with P. meyeri in SE Zimbabwe, although this is perhaps not as extensive as once thought: birds with yellow shoulders may be aberrant birds of present species. In past considered conspecific with P. crassus. Proposed race zanzibaricus, of Zanzibar and Pemba, indistinct from tanganyikae, which itself is sometimes regarded as invalid. Two subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- tanganyikae Bowen, 1930 - SE Kenya, Zanzibar and Pemba to S Malawi and Mozambique N of R Save.
- cryptoxanthus (W. K. H. Peters, 1854) - SE Zimbabwe and Mozambique S of R Save to NE South Africa.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird feeding in a tree Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa (ssp crytoxanthus)
Max Roth 30 September 2000 6 years ago 20 sec 3.8 -
A bird preening on a branch Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa (ssp crytoxanthus)
Max Roth 30 September 2000 6 years ago 7 sec 3.7 -
A bird feeding Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa (ssp crytoxanthus)
Max Roth 30 September 2000 6 years ago 12 sec 3.7
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Resting in a tree
Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa
Lindsay Hansch 13 October 2008 43 weeks ago 3.4 -
A bird in the wild.
Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa
Ken Havard 10 October 2007 1 year ago 3.3 -
An immadure bird.
Locality Loro Parque, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands
Pedro Ortega Pinilla 22 August 2004 3 years ago 3 -
A bird, find the last fruit of the acacia.
Locality Kruger National Park, South Africa (ssp cryptoxanthus)
Carmelo López 7 November 2010 50 weeks ago 2.6
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