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Ultramarine Lorikeet
Vini ultramarina (Kuhl, 1820)
Psittaculidae — Old World Parrots
Ultramarine Lorikeet, Vini ultramarina, is a parrot of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, now breeding only on Ua Huka after disappearing from the other islands in its former range. It is an Old World parrot first described by Kuhl in 1820. The bird is tied to lowland and montane moist forest, and also uses plantations. It nests in tree cavities. Its decline has been linked to black rat predation and the loss of forest through clearing, logging, grazing and fire.
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Family
- Psittaculidae — Old World Parrots
- Breeding range
- Pacific Ocean: Ua Huka (reintroduced); extinct on other is. (Marquesas Is., ne Polynesia)
