The jumping parrot Macquarie [1] ( lat. Cyanoramphus erythrotis ) is an extinct species of cacarika .
| † Macquarie Bouncing Parrot |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| View: | † Macquarie Bouncing Parrot |
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Cyanoramphus erythrotis
( Wagler , 1832 ) |
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The species lived on the subantarctic island of Macquarie , today administratively belonging to the Australian state of Tasmania . After the island was discovered in 1810, the parrot had a large population. In 1820, the island was visited by the expedition of Thaddeus Bellingshausen . Later, visitors to the island were widely hunted by parrots. This led to the extinction of the species in the late 1880s . [2]
The parrot was classified as a subspecies of the red-faced kakarika ( Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae erythrotis ), later it was isolated from the Raishek kakarika into a separate genus of subantarctic kakarika as a subspecies of Cyanoramphus erythrotis erythrotis . However, the Kareiks of Reishek, living on the islands of the Antipodes , are often isolated as a separate species of Cyanoramphus hochstetteri instead of Cyanoramphus erythrotis hochstetteri . [3]