Ornate Lorikeet

The ornate lorikeet (Trichoglossus ornatus), sometimes named the ornate lory, belongs to parrot in the family Psittaculidae. Its natural range is restricted to the Sulawesi archipelago in Indonesia. The ornate lorikeet was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Psittacus ornatus. Linnaeus based his description of the "Lory Parrakeet" that had been described and illustrated in 1751 by George Edwards in his "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds". (Wikipedia, general species account).

Its recorded distribution includes forest, woodland, mangrove and plantations, and is locally common. Linnaeus mistakenly specified the location as "America" although Edwards had stated that the bird had come from the "East Indies" (actually the Indonesian island of Sulawesi). The species is now placed in the genus Trichoglossus that was introduced by the English naturalist James Francis Stephens in 1826. The species is a mainly green parrot about 25 cm (10.0 in) long. (Wikipedia, general species account).