Species profile
Night Parrot
Pezoporus occidentalis
Quick answer
Arid interior of w and c Australia (on verge of extinction)
- Scientific name
- Pezoporus occidentalis
- Family
- Psittacidae
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Genus
- Pezoporus
- Conservation status
- Critically Endangered
Recording Night Parrot in your journal
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Related species in Psittacidae
- Alexandrine parakeet (Psittacula eupatria)
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- Amazonian Parrotlet (Nannopsittaca dachilleae)
- Andean Parakeet (Bolborhynchus orbygnesius)
- Anodorhynchus maximiliani (Anodorhynchus maximiliani)
- Antipodes Parakeet (Cyanoramphus unicolor)
- Aratinga hockingi (Aratinga hockingi)
- Aratinga pintoi (Aratinga pintoi)