Hanging Parrots

Hanging parrots are endemic to tropical southern Asia.

As their name suggests, these small parrots are often seen hanging from tree branches while feeding on their favorite fruits or nectar.

They may even sleep upside-down – just like the unrelated bats.

These little parrots are mostly green plumaged and short-tailed.

Please refer to the relevant species listed below for further information.

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Sub-species:

Bismarck’s Hanging Parrots aka the Green-fronted Hanging-parrot, Coryllis Des Bismark, or Lorículo De Las Bismarck (Loriculus aurantiifrons tener)

Black-billed Hanging-Parrot (Loriculus stigmatus)

Blue-crowned Hanging Parrots (Loriculus galgulus)

Bonaparte’s Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis bonapartei)

Bourns’ Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis bournsi)

Butung Hanging Parrots (Loriculus stigmatus croconotus)

Camiguin Hanging-parrots (Loriculus camiguinensis)

Cebu Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis chrysonotus)

Celebes Hanging-parrots (Loriculus stigmatus), also called Sulawesi Hanging Parrots

Butung Hanging Parrots (Loriculus stigmatus croconotus) / No longer recognized sub-species

Togian Hanging Parrots (Loriculus stigmatus quadricolor) / No longer recognized sub-species

Central Island Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis regulus)

Ceylon / Sri Lanka Hanging Parrots (Loriculus beryllinus)

Colasisi Hanging Parrots – Includes the Philippine Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis) and the monotypic Camiguin Hanging-Parrots(L. camiguinensis) (a genus consisting of only one species).

Coryllis Vert, also known as Green Hanging Parrots, Red-billed Hanging-parrots, or Lorículo Exiguo (Loriculus exilis)

Doherty’s Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis dohertyi)

Great Hanging Parrots (Loriculus stigmatus)

Green-fronted Hanging Parrots also known as the Bismarck’s Hanging-parrot, Coryllis Des Bismark, or Lorículo De Las Bismarck (Loriculus tener)

Green Hanging Parrots – Also known as Red-billed Hanging-parrot, Coryllis Vert, or Lorículo Exiguo (Loriculus exilis)

Hartert’s Orange-fronted Hanging Parrots (Loriculus aurantiifrons meeki)

Indian Hanging Parrots or Indian Hanging-Parrots (Loriculus vernalis)

Large Sulawesi Hanging-Parrots (Loriculus stigmatus)

Lorículo Exiguo, also known as Green Hanging Parrots, Red-billed Hanging-parrots, or Coryllis Vert (Loriculus exilis)

Maroon-rumped Hanging-Parrots (Loriculus stigmatus)

Mindanao Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis apicalis)

Mindoro Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis mindorensis)

Moluccan Hanging Parrots (Loriculus amabilis)

Peling Hanging Parrots (Loriculus amabilis rube)

Sangihe Hanging Parrots (Loriculus catamene aka Loriculus amabilis catamene)

Sclater’s Hanging Parrots (Loriculus amabilis sclateri)

Orange-fronted Hanging Parrots (Loriculus aurantiifrons)

Panay Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis panayensis)

Peling Hanging Parrots (Loriculus amabilis ruber)

Philippine Hanging Parrots (Loriculus p. philippensis)

Bonaparte’s Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis bonapartei)

Bourns’ Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis bournsi)

Cebu Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis chrysonotus)

Central Island Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis regulus)

Doherty’s Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis dohertyi)

Mindanao Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis apicalis)

Mindoro Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis mindorensis)

Panay Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis panayensis)

Siquijor Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis siquijorensis) – Possibly EXTINCT

Worcester’s Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis worcesteri)

Red-crowned Hanging Parrots (Loriculus stigmatus)

Sangihe Hanging Parrots (Loriculus catamene aka Loriculus amabilis catamene)

Sclater’s Hanging Parrots (Loriculus amabilis sclateri)

Siquijor Hanging Parrots (Loriculus philippensis siquijorensis) – Possibly EXTINCT

Stresemann’s Orange-fronted Hanging Parrots (Loriculus aurantiifrons batavorum)

Sri Lanka Hanging Parrot (Loriculus beryllinus)

Sula Hanging Parrots (Loriculus sclateri)

Sulawesi Hanging-parrot (Loriculus stigmatus), also called Celebes Hanging Parrot

Togian Hanging Parrots (Loriculus stigmatus quadricolor)

Vernal Hanging Parrots (Loriculus vernalis)

Wallace’s Hanging Parrots (Loriculus flosculus)

Yellow-throated Hanging Parrots (Loriculus pusillus)

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Taxonomy and Other Names:

Class: Aves … Order: Psittaciformes … Family: Psittacidae … Subfamily: Psittacinae

Genus: Scientific: Loriculus … English: Hanging Parrots … Dutch: Hangparkieten … German: Fledermauspapageien … French: Loricules

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