The Ruffel parakeet [1] ( lat. Poicephalus rueppellii ) is a bird of the parrot family.
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
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| International scientific name |
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Poicephalus rueppellii JE Gray , 1849 |
| Security status |
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Least ConcernedIUCN 3.1 Least Concern : 22685321 |
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Content
Body length 22-24 cm, tail 6 cm; weight - 121-156 g. The main color of the plumage is olive-gray. Lower body with a bluish-green tint. Chest and ears with a gray tint. There is a large yellow spot on the fold of the wing, the same color and the lower part of the “panties”. The beak is black. Paws are gray. The iris is red-orange. The female has a blue back and overshade, a light blue underwings.
It lives in Namibia and in the south of Angola .
It is inhabited by spiny shrub savannas , woods, dry semi-arid thickets to an altitude of 1400 m above sea level.
Named after the German naturalist and researcher Edward Rüppel .
- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 125. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
