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Wallace's hanging parrot
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Psittaciformes
Family:	Psittaculidae
Genus:	Loriculus
Species:	L. flosculus
Binomial name
Loriculus flosculus Wallace, 1864

Wallace's hanging parrot (Loriculus flosculus) also known as the Flores hanging parrot, is a small (length: 11–12 cm) parrot endemic to the island of Flores.

This is an arboreal parrot. The male is predominantly green, with a red bill, a red spot on the throat, orange legs and dark red nape, bright red rump and uppertail-coverts. The female has the red on the throat reduced or absent.

This parrot qualifies as Endangered as it has a very small range and population. The main threat is habitat destruction. The current population is estimated at between 2,500 and 10,000.

It is named after Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, and biologist.

References

1. BirdLife International (2019). "Loriculus flosculus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T22685428A156225653. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22685428A156225653.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 357–358.

External links

• BirdLife Species Factsheet

• IUCN Red List vulnerable species
• Loriculus
• Birds of Flores
• Birds described in 1864
• Endemic birds of Indonesia