Collecting Fiji Raised Species 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini. ” Beehler et al.’s
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2011
The genus is Cyanoramphus , and they are sometimes known collectively as the kakariki (literally little kaka). In addition to this tight clustering of related parakeets, the genus also had two species in the far-flung Society Islands (now in French Polynesia). He lists four extant species, along with the two extinct species.
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