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Comoro Black Parrot
Coracopsis sibilans Milne-Edwards & Oustalet, 1885
Psittaculidae — Old World Parrots
Comoro Black Parrot, Coracopsis sibilans, is a parrot of the montane parts of Grande Comore and Anjouan in the Comoros. It belongs to the family Psittaculidae and was described by Milne-Edwards and Oustalet in 1885. It is recognised as a distinct species by the IOC from 2021. It was formerly treated as part of the lesser vasa parrot, but it differs from that bird in form, ecology and behaviour.
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Family
- Psittaculidae — Old World Parrots
- Breeding range
- Africa: montane Grande Comore (=Njazidja) and Anjouan (=Nzwani; nw, ec Comoros)
